THE BEAR MEDICINE. 357 
visit the poor boy in his tipi and they would sleep together. For many 
nights the chief’s boy slept with the poor boy in the poor boy’s tipi. 
The chief’s son then coaxed and coaxed the poor boy to go to his tipi, but 
he would not go. 
On one of their journeys they came to a mountainous country, to a 
place called Mountains-Covered-With-Seeds. The camp was made on 
the south side of the mountains. The people found many buffalo, and 
they killed them and brought the meat home, jerked and dried it. They 
camped for several days at this place while they were drying the meat, 
and the chief’s son stayed with the poor boy all the time. The poor 
boy’s father had gone with the party to kill the buffalo, but had not 
killed any himself. Some other men called him to help skin and cut 
their meat, and they gave himsome. When he came home the boy felt 
ashamed because his father had not killed any buffalo. While they were 
_at this camp the father had told the boy that men did not dare go into 
the mountains where the cedars were, and if they did they never came 
back; for there were mysterious animals among the cedars that killed 
people, even horses and ponies. The boy listened to all that his father 
said, and one night he was thinking about the place, although the 
chief’s son lay beside him talking to him and playing with him. He 
waited, and as soon as the chief’s son went to sleep the boy said to him- 
self: ‘‘I will now go and be devoured by those mysterious animals in the 
mountains.’’ So the boy left his bed and went out. He threw his 
blanket away and went towards the mountains, and as soon as he began 
to climb the mountains he began to cry. He climbed to the top of the 
mountains through the cedar timber, and on the other side he saw a 
ravine running up the mountains. He followed this ravine and crossed 
a little stream that was running down from the mountains, and on the 
other side he found a trail that was much like a human pathway. He 
followed this path until he came to the place where the mountains met 
and there he found a hole. He thought to himself: ‘‘This is what I 
came for; I shall now enter this den, and if there is a wild animal in there 
he can devour me. I am poor in spirit all the time when I am at home. 
My people are poor. The chief’s boy is well off, he likes me, he likes to 
stay in my tipi, and I always feel bad to have him with me, although he 
likes me.”’ 
The boy went into the den and he found that it was the home of the 
Bears. There was sleeping on one side of the cave a mother Bear; in 
another place were three or four young Bears. The boy sat down and 
the cubs came to him and played with him. After a while one of the 
Bears went and awoke the mother, and said: ‘‘ Mother, there is a boy in 
