146 TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
jumped to run into the timber he said to Handsome-Boy, “Forget.” 
Handsome-Boy would forget all about the strange boy and how he had 
played with him. He never spoke to his father about the strange boy. 
For several days the boy came and played with Handsome-Boy. Every 
day he would come closer to Handsome-Boy. One day they were play- 
ing in the lodge when the boy jumped up and said: ‘‘ Your father is com- 
ing and I must go.”” The boy ran out of the lodge and the man saw him. 
This time the boy forgot to say to Handsome-Boy, ‘‘Forget.” The man 
went into the lodge and when he saw that the meat and water were all 
gone, the father asked the boy how it was that every day the meat and 
water were all used up. Handsome-Boy told his father that a strange 
boy came to the lodge every day and before he appeared he sang and 
then cried. He said that in the singing the strange boy would say: 
Your father loves you, but he threw me away. 
He brings you much meat to eat. 
Grandmother gives me artichokes, grapes, and plums. 
Then the man said: ‘‘What does the boy say?’ Handsome-Boy 
said: ‘‘When we play he says to me, ‘Your father loves you. He took 
me and placed me at the roots of a big elm tree.’”’ The man knew that 
that was where he placed the after-birth; that there must have been a 
child in the after-birth. He said: ‘‘My son, we must try to catch this 
boy, so that the boy can play with you all the time. I must go far away 
to hunt.” 
One day the man hid in the lodge, thinking that the boy would enter 
and he would be able to catch him. When the boy came, as soon as he 
reached the entrance he sniffed and said: ‘‘I smell your father. Your 
father is in the lodge.” He then ranaway intothetimber. The man tried 
many ways to catch the boy, but he could not get him. The man took a 
strip of buckskin from the nose of the deer down to the tail. This he 
cut into small strings. The man gave the boy these buckskin strings 
and told him to tie them upon the boy’s hair on top of his head. Each 
day the boy came in to play with Handsome-Boy. After they had 
played with the bow and arrows, eaten and drunk, then the strange boy 
would say, ‘‘Let me look into your hair and pick out the lice.”” Then 
Handsome-Boy would lie down and let the strange boy hunt the lice in 
his head. When the strange boy became tired, he told Handsome-Boy 
to look at his head. 
One day while Handsome-Boy was looking for lice in the boy’s head, 
he took the buckskin strings which he had and tied a bunch of hair on 
top of his head. He tied it very tight. While he was doing this the boy 
tried to jump up several times to run away, but as soon as the hair was 
