404 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
body. There were many downy feathers upon his head, so that when 
he danced it seemed to the people as if sparks of fire were all around 
him. The people gave him many presents. 7 
After the dance the people talked about the boy and some believed 
that he was a medicine-man. In a little while a man took sick, and his 
relatives went for the boy to doctor the sick man. The young man 
selected three men to go with him who were to help him sing. When 
the boy began to sing Dog songs, he jumped up and ran, and he spat out 
a small dog hide close to the sick man. When the dog hide was spread 
open there was a picture of the moon upon it. The boy spread the dog 
hide upon the patient and the patient went to sleep at once, and in a 
few days he awoke a well man. The boy went to his home, and the 
relatives of the patient sent him many presents for his pay. The boy 
afterwards started what is known as the Young-Dog dance among the 
Pawnee. 
107. BURNT-BELLY AND THE DOG." 
Many years ago the poorer class of the Pawnee lived in grass-lodges. 
The well-to-do people lived in earth-lodges. Among the Pawnee at this 
time was an old woman who lived on the outskirts of the village with her 
grandson. He sat by the fireplace all day long and so his belly began 
to turn black from burning. In those times a poor boy had only half 
of a buffalo robe with which to cover his body. When he sat by the fire 
he placed his belly towards the fire with his robe upon his back. One 
day the old woman and the boy went through the village picking up 
kernels of corn which people had dropped. They found a little Dog out- 
side of an earth-lodge. This Dog was brown in color. The boy picked 
up the Dog and carried it home. Whenever the grandmother made mush 
the boy would divide with the Dog. The Dog grew up very fast, so that 
it was now quite large. At night the Dog would disappear. When it 
returned it would bring dried meat mixed with fat. The old woman did 
not like the Dog much at first, but when it began to steal meat for them 
she liked it and made it lie with the boy. 
One time when the boy and the Dog went to bed, the boy saw the 
Dog in his dream. The Dog told the boy that it was now time for him 
to go upon the war-path; that he must listen to him; that he would pro- 
tect him and keep him from being caught. Several days after this 
dream the boy decided that he would go. He told his grandmother to 
make him a pair of moccasins. When the moccasins were finished he 
‘Told by Leading-Sun, Kitkehahki. The moral of the story is the same as that 
of the preceding tale, 7 
