HANDSOME-BOY AND AFTER-BIRTH BOY. 145 
He followed the trail of the people and for many miles he followed 
their tracks until at last the tracks led into a thick timber. In the tim- 
ber was a grass-lodge, and near it the leaves were all red. When the 
man was near to the grass-lodge he heard some one say: ‘‘Look into 
the pot, and see if the meat is done. It is nearly time for us to eat.” 
The man then knew that his wife had been killed by these people and 
‘they were going to eat her. He had to slip away from the place or the 
strange beings would get him also and kill him. He went to his lodge, 
cooked some meat for the child, and then he placed the child upon his 
back and carried it around through the woods. For several days he 
stayed with the child. When their meat was about all used up the man 
thought to himself: ‘If I do not get some meat we shall starve. I must 
go and get some more meat.’’ The man cooked some meat for the boy 
and told him that he was going on a hunt. 
That afternoon the man brought in some meat. After he had placed 
- the meat in the lodge he went into the timber. There he found a hollow 
log. This he took into the lodge and split it open. He began to clean 
out part of the log. He placed at each end of it a lot of tallow. He 
brought water in skins and placed the water in the hollow log. Then 
the man told the child that whenever he became thirsty he must drink 
out of the trough. The next morning the man filled the trough with 
water again. He placed some meat around the fire and told the child 
that when he got hungry to go to the meat and eat it and also to drink 
of the water. 
One day when the father had fixed the meat and placed the water 
in the trough for the boy he went away upon the hunt. The child was 
alone in the lodge. Suddenly the child heard somebody singing outside 
of the lodge. After the song someone would begin to cry. The boy in 
the lodge was afraid. After a while a child appeared in the entrance. 
The song which the child sang was something like this: 
‘‘Handsome-Boy, your father loves you. He kills game for you and 
takes it to your lodge and you have plenty. Your father threw me away. 
My grandmother came and took me into their lodge. You eat meat all 
the time. I do not eat meat, but I eat things such as the ground beans, 
artichokes, grapes, and plums.” 
When the boy came inside he said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy, let us play.’’ 
Then Handsome-Boy tried to get the other boy to enter the lodge with 
_ him, but the boy would notgoin. The strange boy also remained some 
distance from. Handsome-Boy. They played together outside of the 
lodge and all at once the boy jumped up and said: ‘‘ Your father is com- 
ing,’ and he ran away and disappeared in the timber. As the boy 
