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ished, for they did not think the old woman could afford to have any meat. 
When they called her back, she told them that the thing was fat to grease 
her grandchild’s eyes with. ‘‘But,” said the old woman, ‘‘if you want, 
you may grease your lips with it.”” The old woman went home. The 
chief had a younger daughter left, and he told the girl to follow the old 
woman home and see what she had at her house. The girl went, and 
peeped into the grass-lodge. She saw the real red fox hanging up on the 
side of the lodge, and it made the lodge red. She also noticed many par- 
fleches filled with buffalo meat piled up around the lodge. The boy 
was sitting by the fire, warming his belly. The girl did not enter the 
lodge, but she went home. 
When the old woman returned, the boy told her that the chief’s 
younger daughter had been there to see him. The old woman nearly 
cried and said: ‘‘Why, my grandson, you must not think that you can 
- marry the chief’s daughter. I will go and see what the girl wanted.”’ 
The old woman went out, and saw the girl just as she entered the village. 
When the old woman came in, the boy said: ‘‘Grandmother, I want you 
to take a parfleche and lay the red fox upon it and carry it to the tipi of 
the chief. Tell the chief that the poor boy sends the meat and the fox to 
him. Tell him that I want the younger daughter for my wife.” The 
old woman went to the chief’s tipi and set the meat and the fox in the 
entrance, at the same time saying: “‘My grandson sends these things to 
the chief. Let the chief hang them by the other fox, and let the people 
see them. Also let the chief gather his friends and feed them with this 
meat, and, as they eat, let them send for my grandson, and let my grand- 
son sit by the chief’s daughter, that they may eat together and become 
husband and wife.” 
The chief listened to the old woman’s words and was glad. He sent 
for his friends and told them to look at the red fox. The people were 
astonished, for they saw that the lodge looked very red. The chief, after 
he had eaten some of the meat, said: ‘‘The poor boy shall sit by my 
daughter, and she shall be his wife. Send word to my son-in-law, that 
my new son-in-law may live in his tipi with him.’”’ The boy came and 
sat down by the girl. The chief spoke again and said: ‘‘ My boy, this day 
you shall be my son-in-law. You shall live with my other son-in-law.” 
That day the boy told the girl to go with him. They came to a pond, 
_ The boy washed and came out, a fine-looking young man. He had a cap 
made from woodpecker’s feathers, and his robe had many stars upon it. 
They went home and entered the tipi of Crow-Feathers. They made 
their bed at the north side of the tipi, while Crow-Feathers had his bed 
in the south part of the tipi. In the night Crow-Feathers peeped, and he 
