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place. The girl went back into her lodge, and the chief’s son went to his 
lodge and called his friend out, and the two boys went outside of the vil- 
lage. The chief’s boy told the poor boy to lie down in the brush and 
hide, and he obeyed. Ashe lay down he heard some one coming, and so 
he kept quiet. The girl came. The chief’s boy met her. They sat 
down close to the poor boy in the brush; then the chief’s son began to 
talk to the girl about whom she should marry. The girl told him that 
he was the only one who was going with her, and that it was understood 
in the village that he was to marry her and that she would never marry 
anyone but him. The boy told her that he would marry her only on 
the condition that she would do as he was going to tell her to do; that he 
wanted her to lie with his friend, the poor boy, and that if she would do 
that he would take her as his wife. The girl objected and said that she 
did not care for the poor boy, and that, even though he wanted her to 
lie with him now, the time would come when he would not like it and 
would always be reminding her of it. The chief’s boy begged and begged 
for her to do what he wanted, but she would not doso. At last he jumped 
up and went away and left her. She went home. Then the chief’s boy 
came back to his friend and said, ‘‘You see I have been begging for you 
to lie with that girl, but I could not get her to do it and so wewill go 
home.” 
Several days passed and the chief’s boy formed another plan. He went 
to the girl’s lodge and asked her to meet him outside of the village again 
that night. She promised to come. As soon as the girl promised to 
come, the young man went back to his lodge and called the poor boy out. 
They went outside the village and the chief’s boy gave his leggings to the 
poor boy, and also gave his robe and the wampum beads that he wore 
about his neck. The chief’s son said, “‘Now, when the girl comes out to 
meet you, do not speak loud, but whisper. Go to the brush yonder and 
lie down with her. After you have lain with her and she finds out that 
it is you, then tell her that you want to take her to a far-away country. 
Go south and travel for about four days, and I will come on horseback 
and hunt you up. Then I will bring you back to the village.” 
The poor boy dressed himself in the clothes of the chief’s son. The 
real chief’s boy remained behind, while the poor boy went to the place 
the girl was to come. After a while the girl came and the boy met her. 
They walked on until they came to some brush. They sat down and 
whispered a long time, and the poor boy whispered to the girl and told 
her that he had made up his mind to marry her. The girl, thinking that 
he was the chief’s son, gave in and finally lay with the poor boy. After 
the poor boy had lain with the girl he sat up and told the girl to sit up 
