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bullets and arrows had so loaded him that he fell. The enemy turned 
around and scalped many of them. They mutilated the body of Pretty- 
Voice. The battle ended. The people went out to bury their dead, 
and especially Pretty-Voice. His poor mother, crying for her son, 
came out with a robe to collect his flesh and do as she had been told. 
The men noticed what she was intending to do. They asked her what 
she was going to do. She told all that Pretty-Voice had said, but the 
men would not hear of his coming again, as he had done enough mis- 
chief. The old mother insisted, but the men would not let her. As the 
brothers disapproved of her plan she gave in, and instead of burying 
his body they made a big fire and destroyed the body entirely. A num- 
ber of days after his body had been burned to ashes a pure white fog 
was seen to arise daily from that place. 
26. THE ELK RESCUES A WOMAN FROM THE BEAR.* 
There was a young man who fell in love with a certain girl in a 
village. This girl was the daughter of a chief, and she was very pretty. 
The young man was poor. He had no ponies, no relatives, but was 
often looking for them. The young girl fell in love with the young 
man, and so they planned to run away. The young man took some 
flint stones, bow and arrows, a knife and some robes, and went to the 
girl’s lodge. He took the girl out, and they rode on ponies. They 
went off into a wild country by themselves. There they stayed. They 
made a tipi. The young man went out every day to kill deer, so that 
now they had plenty of meat all the time. The young man thought a 
great deal of his wife. The only time he left her was in the daytime. 
The young man killed so many deer that the woman made buckskin 
dresses for herself, and also buckskin leggings for the man. The 
young man killed many elk,-and the teeth of the elk were put upon the 
buckskin dresses. They made a big new tipi. They had much dried 
meat. 
One day the young man said: “I will stop hunting. I will now 
go to yonder hill, and I will try to catch some eagles.” So the young 
man went up on a hill, and he caught many eagles. He took them to 
his home. One time while he was in a den, waiting for an eagle to 
alight so that he could catch it, somebody came to his camping place 
and took away his wife. This being was a Bear. The Bear had turned 
into a man and had come to the camp. He had a robe about his shoul- 
*Told by Antelope. 
