424 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
Handsome-Boy would say: ‘‘I could not do anything, for it is not in me 
to strike anybody.”’ This was because the spirits had told him while he 
was there that he should never strike anybody. 
One day his wife was telling him how a certain young man had 
followed her around, but Handsome-Boy did not take it up nor try to 
hurt the young man. His wife became angry and began to call him names, 
and even tried to strike him. Handsome-Boy went off from the village and 
lay down with his face upon the ground and wept. For some time he 
lay upon the ground. After a while some one came and stood near him. 
Handsome-Boy said: ‘‘Sit down, whoever you are.”’ A beautiful girl 
sat down by him and said: ‘“‘Handsome-Boy, I have come to you. I 
havecome to be with you and to take you to my lodge to be my husband.” 
Handsome-Boy told the girl that what she said was good and that he 
would take her for his wife. They waited until after dark; then they 
went into the village. The girl took Handsome-Boy to her tipi that had 
been put up outside for her. Shetold him to lie upon the buffalo robes 
which were spread upon the ground while she went to tell her mother to 
cook some dried buffalo meat for him. As soon as the girl told her 
mother that Handsome-Boy was in the tipi, she began to cook something 
for him and the old man jumped up with his tobacco and pipe and went 
into the tipi where Handsome-Boy was. The old man was glad to have 
Handsome-Boy for his son-in-law. He told him that he was glad that his 
daughter had selected him for her husband. He filled the pipe and they 
began to smoke together. After a while the woman brought in buffalo 
meat and placed it before Handsome-Boy. He ate of the meat and 
passed the wooden bowl to the old woman. The old people knew that 
Handsome-Boy and their daughter wanted to be alone and so they left 
and went into their own tipi. Handsome-Boy and the girl remained in 
the tipi for four days and four nights. 
On the fourth day the child of Handsome-Boy began to cry for his 
father. The people did not know where Handsome-Boy had gone. They 
hunted for him throughout the village, but they could not find him. 
Towards evening the boy cried for his father and pointed in a certain 
direction. The mother, seeing the child pointing, went in that same 
direction until she came close to a tipi. The child pointed to the tipi, 
and the mother peeped into the tipi and she saw her husband there with 
another woman. She took the child home, gave it to his grandmother, 
and said: ‘‘Take this child to a certain tipi. His father is sitting 
there and you may let him take the child.’’ The old woman took the 
child to the tipi where his father was. She entered the tipi and put the 
child into the lap of the father. The father was glad to hold the child. 
