164 | TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
After the boy had settled down and was strong again, he told the 
chief to send the people out into the timber. They went out and began 
to kill game and they found plenty of artichokes, ground beans, and 
game. When they brought in their meat the boy said: “This is the 
last time I shall do this for your people. It is the fourth time I have 
done it for you. Now you must move away from here and go far into 
the country, where you can find game for yourselves.” 
In a few days the people moved away from the village and went west, 
hunting for buffalo. They found the buffalo and killed many. After 
they came back from the buffalo hunt the boy gave them seeds to plant. 
The boy taught them to put the seeds in the ground, and after the seeds 
were put in the ground they were to hunt buffalo. The people learned 
how to plant corn in the spring, hunt in the summer, and gather their 
crops in the fall and then hunt again. The boy who visited the lodge 
said: ‘‘People, in your dancing you must wear my cap made of heads of 
woodpeckers. Then other people will know that there was a time when 
the Bear-Man wore my cap.’’ The people had plenty to eat and were 
taught many things by the boy. Afterwards the boy disappeared, first 
singing to the poor boy who was now to take his place: 
Pa-oo! My uncle yonder came. 
You are now sitting high up in the top of a tall tree. 
44, THE SHOOTING OF THE SQUIRREL’S NOSE.* 
There was a village near a small stream of water. The chief’s tipi 
was placed on the north side by itself. Close to the tipi was a ravine, and 
at the head of the ravine was a tall cottonwood tree which was forked 
near its top. On the east side of the timber was a little grass-house 
where there lived a poor woman with her grandchild. When the peo- 
ple went out to urinate they went to the grass-house and urinated on it. 
The old woman was not old from age, but she was poor and therefore 
was called an old woman. She took this little boy into her grass-lodge, 
for he had no home. She called him her grandchild. The boy wore 
half of a buffalo robe. This was the only bedding he had and it had a 
bad odor, for he often urinated on it. His hair was never brushed and 
he was always dirty. 
When the children of the chief went out to play they went to the cot- 
tonwood tree and there they would scare a squirrel. The squirrel would 
Told by Leading-Sun, Kitkehahki. The story teaches that the daughters of 
chiefs should not despise the poor boys of the village, because ultimately they 
might become worthy to be their husbands. 
