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tied fast Handsome-Boy said, ‘‘Come, father, come.’’ Then the boy 
got hold of the mysterious boy and just as his father came the boy slipped 
away from him. He caught the buckskin strings, pulled them tight, and 
pulled out some hair from his head. The boy fell into the arms of the 
father. Handsome-Boy took the buckskin strings and the hair and 
placed them in the sacred bundle. After a while the strange boy was 
conquered. He said: “‘Father, I will stay with you. I am your son and 
Handsome-Boy is my brother.”” The boy stayed. 
For many years these three lived at this earth-lodge. Every day 
the man went hunting. The two boys were now big and made their bows 
and arrows themselves. They made asinew ring and tied it at each end. 
This sinew they placed in the dirt and shot at it. They were now big. 
They wandered over the timber. The father knew it. He was afraid 
they might come upon some wild beasts or strange people who inhabited 
the country. 
One day when the father was ready to go out hunting, he said: ‘‘Now, 
my sons, you must not go to the river at a certain place, for at that place 
is a bull-boat.. The bull-boat is stationed there. When a person enters 
it the boat starts across the river. When it gets into the middle of the 
stream where it is deep then the waves roll up and the bull-boat is upset 
and the person is thrown out into the water. As soon as the person 
gets into the water the bull-boat moves back to where it was upon the 
bank.’” The man went off on a hunt. 
After a while the strange boy said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy, you know what 
your father said about going to that boat. Let us now go. He said we 
could go.’’ Handsome-Boy said: ‘‘No; we must not go, for there is 
danger there.”’ The two boys began to quarrel. One wanted to go 
and the other did not. At last the strange boy said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy, 
you are a coward. Give me my hair so that I may return to my grand- 
mother.’’ Handsome-Boy said: ‘‘No, brother I will not give you the 
hair and I will not let you return to your grandmother. I would rather 
die than to have you leave me. I will go with you.”” The strange boy 
was happy. They ran to the river and when they reached the bank 
they saw the boat. As soon as he saw the boat he ran down and jumped 
into it. Then he yelled to his brother and said: ‘‘Come, Handsome-Boy, 
quick; this is fine.’’ Handsome-Boy ran down and jumped into the 
boat. The boat then started across. When it reached the middle of 
_ the river it began to roll up and down, for the waves became very high. 
Then Handsome-Boy became scared and cried. The strange boy said: 
‘Watch me, watch me. You must do whatever I do.’”” When the boat 
was about to upset the strange boy stretched out his arms and began to 
