THE BOY WHO WORE A WOODPECKER CAP. 161 
must kill whatever comes in their way.”’ The people went out to the 
place and they surrounded it. When the command was given them 
they rushed into the timber. Some women found nests of ground beans. 
While they were digging out these things their sisters came across rac- 
coons. The men found plenty of deer jumping around through the timber. 
The people killed much game and dug many ground beans and artichokes. 
They brought the meat and everything home with them, and the people 
talked about Woodpecker-Boy. In the night the boy disappeared. The 
people asked about him. They wondered where he was. Thechief wanted 
him, but the next day the boy was again seen upon the island. 
several days afterwards the boy returned. Again he entered the 
lodge where he was before and he told the people that he was going out 
to the timber, and that he wanted them to be ready in order that 
they might surround more game. The boy went over into the timber 
at night and returned early the next morning. The people surrounded 
_ the timber and this time they found larger game. When the people 
brought their meat home they talked about Woodpecker-Boy and said 
that he was wonderful. While they were talking about him the chief 
thought that it would be best to invite the boy to his lodge. The chief 
sent his servant to invite Woodpecker-Boy to his lodge. When the 
servant asked for Woodpecker-Boy the people said that he had disap- 
peared. The next day he was seen upon the island again. 
A few days afterwards the boy thought that the people were hungry 
and he crossed the lake again. For the third time he told the people to 
go into the timber. When they went they found buffalo. The men 
surrounded the buffalo and killed many of them. They carried the meat 
home and Woodpecker-Boy was again missing. The chief sent a crier 
through the village and asked the people if they had seen Woodpecker- 
Boy; the chief wanted him at his lodge, as he had decided that he should 
become his son-in-law. There were many men in the village who would 
have liked to be in the place of the boy. 
In the village was a strange-looking man. He was always painted 
red, with a small robe upon his shoulders. He had bears’ claws about 
his neck. This-person had been watching Woodpecker-Boy. He went 
down late in the evening to where the boy always came across from the 
island. There he began to dig a hole. This man was a Bear-Man. 
When the boy shot his arrow over the lake the arrow fell into the hole 
which the Bear-Man had dug. There the boy found himself in the hole. 
The Bear-Man came and said: ‘‘My son, hand up your clothes first. 
I will take you out of this hole. The chief is looking for you and I know 
by taking you out he will reward me.’’ The boy took off his things and 
