THE POOR BOY WHO WANTED TO GET MARRIED. 209 
Yonder, yonder, yonder. 
Yonder, yonder, yonder. 
Grandmother, to speak for me, go 
To the lodge of many maidens. 
Yonder, yonder, yonder. 
Yonder, yonder, yonder. 
When he stopped singing, the old woman cried inside of the lodge and 
said: ‘‘My grandson, you know the people do not like us. You want 
me to go and ask many girls to marry you. I do not believe that they 
will have you.’’ The boy began to sing the same song. While he was 
singing the old woman went out. Instead of her poor boy standing there, 
there stood a fine-looking young man with an eagle cap upon his head. 
He had on fine leggings, moccasins, a new robe, and a new quiver filled with 
arrows, and anew bow. She could not believe that it was her grandson. 
Then she asked if it were he, and he said that it was and he wanted her to 
- go and ask the chief for his many daughters. 
The old woman went to the lodge of the chief. She said, ‘‘I have 
come to ask for your girls for my grandson.’’ The chief was lying down 
upon his bed. He got up and sat near the fireplace with hishead down. 
He sat there for along time. At last he lifted his head and said: 
“Woman, who is this grandson of yours that I should give him my 
daughters? Go to him and tell him that I will send my answer to him 
to-morrow when the sun is up high.’’ The woman arose and went to her 
lodge. She told her grandson that he was to receive the chief’s answer 
the next day. The boy then stood outside and began to sing again, 
saying: 
| My grandson sitting here, 
Did climb and reach the hill tops, 
Yonder red hill tops. 
‘“‘Listen, grandmother,”’ the people say, 
‘“‘Could your grandson find the buffalo 
By climbing yonder red hills?’ 
After singing he went into the lodge, sat down, and ate some meat. 
Just then the same girl who had been in before entered the lodge. She 
saw the boy’s cap hanging on the side of the wall; also the leggings and 
moccasins. The boy wore the robe, and the quiver was hanging on the 
wall. The boy was sitting down eating. The girl spoke to the old woman 
and said, ‘‘Is that your grandson?’’ The old woman said, ‘‘That is my 
-grandson.’’ The girl then said: ‘‘Grandmother, I want you to know 
that I am the youngest of the chief’s daughters. I have been here once 
before. I love your.grandson and I want to marry him.’’ The woman 
gave the girl meat:and sent her to her home. } 
