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and listen to what he had to tell her. He pulled the robe away from his 
face and said: ‘‘Girl, I am the poor boy. My brother, the chief’s boy, 
has deceived you. I know the way he talked here to you and I know 
just what he wanted you to do. I care for you and I want you to be my 
wife, and that is why I did not come right out and tell you who I was. 
You are disgraced because a poor boy has lain with you. You do not 
care to go back into the village. I am willing that we go south, and 
there I will try to make you happy.” 
The girl said that she would go; that she did not want to go back to 
the village, as the people would make fun of her, especially the chief’s son. 
The poor boy, instead of going to the place where the chief’s son was 
sitting, went direct to the lodge of the chief and took a quiver filled with 
arrows and a bow and a knife. Upon his belt he put a horn and flint 
stones with which to kindle a fire. After he had gathered these things 
he went to meet the girl. He told her to go toher tipi and to bring her 
sinew and awl, and her robe. He waited outside while the girl went in 
and brought the things; then they started upon their journey to the 
south. During the day they rested, and in the night they traveled 
again. The boy went out and killed game, so that they had something 
to eat. 
After the fourth day the girl’s relations became uneasy about her. 
They hunted her through the village, but they could not find her. At 
last they sent a woman over to the chief’s lodge to see if the chief’s boy 
was there. She saw him and went back and told that he was there. In 
the night the woman was sent back to see if the chief’s boy would go out 
of the lodge, thinking that he might have left the girl outside of the village 
and would go to her. The woman went and watched all night and saw 
that the boy never left the lodge that night. The next day the girl’s 
uncle was told of her disappearance, and he was also told the chief’s 
boy was the only one who was courting her. The uncle of the girl went 
to the chief’s lodge and he found the chief’s boy lying upon the bed. He 
told the chief that the girl was missing, and that they thought that his 
boy had taken her. The boy sat up and said that he had not seen her 
for several days, and that she was not with him. Several men were 
sent through the village to see if any young man was missing. These 
men went into every lodge and counted all the young men. At last they 
came into the lodge of the chief. There they counted the people and 
found one person missing. They knew that the missing one was the 
poor boy, and so they asked if the boy had been there for the last few 
days, and the chief said that he had not. The people then knew that 
the poor boy had taken the girl away, and some of them threatened to 
