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She would then lift her stick and say, ‘‘Stretch and break that limb for 
me.’’ This she did until she had plenty of them. Then she would sit 
down and wait for the other girls. When the girls came she would lift 
her wood on her back and lead the girls into camp. She was very neat, 
and her wood was always piled up in an even pile. 
The boys of the village noticed her and tried to court her. A young 
man with game sticks brought his game near her tipi, so that she would 
notice him. Other young men passed by her tipi and shot their arrows, 
so that she would see how well they could shoot; but she would not look 
at them. In the night young men turned out with their flutes, but she 
did not listen. A dance was to be given in the village. On the morn- 
ing of the dance she saw a Hawk sitting on a limb, and she knew him. 
“Yes; you may come and see me, but you must become a man.’”’ The 
Hawk went where the animals dwelt and begged them to transform him 
to aman. This was done; then he visited the girl and she knew him. 
_ She told her mother to tell her father that she would marry this young 
man. This was agreed upon and Hawk married the girl. The girl con- 
tinued to sit on the pool of water, and when the girls came she went 
with them and gathered wood with them, and when she went home she 
piled her wood up in an even pile. Then the water was dipped, her face 
was washed, her hair was wet with it and combed. Then she would dip 
some water and wash her husband’s face and head. After washing, 
she would sit on her pool, her husband by her. Pemmican was handed 
them in a bowl and they ate very slowly. Every day the girls came and 
Young-Duck went with them after wood. Her husband would go up 
on a high hill and watch them. 
One day, as the girl returned home, she noticed a strange woman in 
their tipi, but she went on with her work. Her mother dipped water 
for her and she washed her face. When she had finished, she sat down 
on her pool of water, and pemmican was brought and handed to her and 
to her husband by her mother. The strange old woman saw all that 
was going on and she wished that she might marry the young man. She 
said: ‘‘I wish that I were in that girl’s place, instead of having so many 
children to look after,’’ and when she went outside she made up her 
mind to watch the girl; for she was a Witch. She went into the timber 
and cut a dogwood stick, about two feet long, whittled it down to a 
sharp point, and burned the point so that it was hard; then dried it. 
One day she went into the timber where the girl generally gathered 
her wood. She hid in the brush, and after a while Young-Duck came. 
The other girls went on by, but Young-Duck stopped under the cotton- 
wood trees. When she had her wood all tied up and ready to return 
home, she sat down on her wood to wait for the girls. She looked up 
