7O TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
Burnt-Hands to go; that the clay ball with the handle was his war- 
club; that when on the way, when he should become hungry he should 
place it upon the fire, put kernels of corn upon it, and roast them. 
These warriors~went out to a camp in the woods. The young 
man came up with them and lay down by them. The next day they 
went and in the afternoon they sat down to rest. They made fun of 
the boy, and said, “Now tell us some Coyote stories.” But the boy 
refused, and said, ‘““My grandmother told me not to tell Coyote stories 
while on the war-path.” The coaxed the boy to sing, but he would 
not sing. 
Tihe boy was hungry. As he saw that the men were not moving 
on he placed his clay ball upon the fire and put some kernels of corn 
upon it and began to roast them. While he was doing this he said, 
“T will tell some Coyote stories.” The boy began to tell how the 
enemy came and attacked a certain war-party. At the same time he 
kept on roasting his corn. 
While he was telling these stories the enemy came, and when the 
men found out that they were surrounded they became scared. But 
the boy went on with his roasting of the corn. When he had finished 
roasting the corn he took a seat and ate his corn, and after he had 
eaten all, he went out and killed many of the enemy with the clay ball 
that he had roasted his corn upon, which was really a war-club. The 
enemy became scared at the boy and ran away. 
So the men found out that the boy was a wonderful boy; and as 
he had killed many of the enemy, when they went home they made 
Burnt-Hands a big chief, gave him a good tipi and a wife. He moved 
his grandmother into the new tipi, and there he lived ever after. 
19. HOW BURNT-HANDS BECAME A CHIEF.* 
One winter the people went a long distance to hunt. With them 
was an old woman and her grandson, named Burnt-Hands, who were 
very poor. One day the people made their village along a stream of 
water, where the scouts reported seeing many buffalo. The young 
man told his grandmother to make a bow and arrows; that he was 
going with the men to kill buffalo; and that he was going to bring 
back some tongues and hearts. The old woman cried, because she 
knew that the boy was poor, and that he could not get any tongues and 
hearts. 
Told by Antelope. 
