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war bonnet. This man said to the boy: ‘‘My boy, I feel sorry for 
you. You are poor; the people make fun of you and call you all kinds 
of names. They even make fun of you and say that you are to become 
a warrior and achief. You see how I am dressed and that I stand here 
on the water. Before very long you are to dress just as I am dressed. 
You shall become a great warrior and shall marry the sister of that won- 
derful man. The wonderful man has dreams about the sun. In the 
dreams the sun told him to make a shield. Through this shield the 
young man thinks he is wonderful. In a few days a war party will start 
out and you must go to the lodge of this wonderful man and ask him 
for his shield. He will let you have the shield. You must follow the war 
party, and, although they shall try to send you home again, keep right on 
with them. I will protect you and will help you to overcome the enemy. 
When you have returned from this war party you must come down to 
this stream of water and I will speak to you again.’’ The poor boy woke 
- up, stood upon the bank, and prayed to the being he had seen in his 
dream that all might come true. He went back to the village and there 
he went from one lodge to the other trying to obtain something to eat. 
A few days after the dream he heard that a party of warriors were 
going on the war-path. He went into the lodge of the wonderful man, 
and as he sat down the wonderful man began to tell him that he was to 
become a great man and that he was to marry his sister; that he was to 
become his brother-in-law. The boy did not pay any attention to it, but 
said: ‘‘My brother, I wish you would lend me your shield. I want to 
join the war party which is going out.”” The wonderful man sat for a 
while and at last said: ‘‘I will lend you the shield. You shall go and 
join the war party.’’ He took the shield and gave it to the poor boy. 
The poor boy followed the warriors, who had already started on the war- 
path. When he caught up with them they scolded him and told him to 
return to the village, as he was too young to go with them. But some 
of the warriors who saw that he carried the shield of the wonderful 
man said: ‘‘Let him stay with us. If he gives out we will leave him. 
See, he has the shield of the wonderful man upon his back. It may be 
that he has wonderful power from the owner of the shield. It may be 
that the wonderful man has given him power to travel.’’ They let the 
boy go with them. 
A few days afterwards they reached the camp of the enemy. The 
_ warriors attacked the village. The young man went into the village, 
killed a man, and took the scalp. He returned to where the other war- 
riors were. The scalp he gave to the leader of the warriors. When the 
fighting was done, the warriors found out that the only man who had 
