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itis well. Let our brother come and play in this lodge.”” The warrior 
then said: “‘For three days I will make preparation, and the fourth 
night I will come and perform.’’ The warrior then went out. He was 
known as a great warrior. He had gone into the enemy’s country and 
had captured many ponies, for it was an easy thing for him to bring ponies 
home. His face was always painted red upon the forehead, and when 
he appeared at the medicine-lodge his mouth was daubed with clay, which 
extended toward his ears; and white clay was about hiseyes. Hehad a 
little soft downy feather on top of his head, and a downy feather stuck 
in his scalp-lock. His hair was covered with white clay. Hehadarobe 
about his shoulders, and a belt with eagle legs filled with native tobacco 
about his waist; and he wore an otter collar with an ear of corn on it. 
One day after going to the lodge, he went through the village and 
saw a boy who was very poor. He said to the boy: ‘‘Come with me to 
my lodge; I have something to say to you.”’ The boy followed the war- 
rior to his lodge, and when they were seated a bowl of soup with dried 
meat in it was placed before him and he was told to eat. The boy ate, 
for he was very hungry, and after he had eaten the warrior said: ‘‘Boy, 
I want your help. JI am about to perform in the medicine-men’s lodge. 
Will you help me and perform with me?” The boy arose, walked to the 
man, and passed his hands over the man’s head and said: ‘‘ You take 
pity upon me. I am poor, and I will do whatever you wish me to do.’’ 
In the afternoon the two went off into the hills. They came to a high 
hill, and on the side of this hill they dug until they came to some 
sticky mud, which they took up and carried to the warrior’s lodge. The 
next day the lodge was swept out. The boy was told to make mud 
ponies and to make them as nearly perfect as he could. He began to 
make the mud horses, and he made four, all of the same size and build. 
When the boy finished a pony he set it in the rays of the sun that came 
through the hole in the lodge. 
On the fourth day, when he had completed the four ponies, they 
stood in the rays of the sun; and the boy sat by them, moving them as 
the rays of the sun moved around the lodge. The warrior told the boy 
that they were now to try the sleight-of-hand tricks. He sang and 
danced round. The magic worked and the warrior was satisfied. In 
the night they went to the lodge. The warrior, with the assistance of the 
boy, made the mud ponies walk around the lodge. The warrior sang, and 
every time he moved his robe the ponies trotted. When he stamped his 
feet the ponies stopped. The warrior was satisfied. The medicine-men 
wondered, for the warrior was not a medicine-man. The spectators 
were impressed and they gave many presents to the warrior. After the 
