II2 TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
boy. At one of these times when the boy had attacked the village and 
killed a man, he ran by the tipi and saw the girl. The girl cheered him. 
The boy went on. In another of these attacks, the boy saw the girl. 
He knew that she must like him. He went on through the village and 
home. ? 
The people in the boy’s village had scalp dances where all the 
women took part. The young man seldom took part, but his sisters 
took part. One night when Rabbit-Boy was lying on his bed the 
women came. They took him out and made him dance. He danced 
several times. Four or five women became fond of him and tried to 
marry him, but he would pay no attention to them. While all this 
dancing was going on, the girl in the enemy’s camp was making a 
pretty pair of moccasins, a pair of beaded bracelets and beaded arm- 
lets. She sent for a servant, a woman captive from the Arikara. The 
girl told the woman that she would help her to get back to her people 
if she would speak to a young man who was killing her people all the 
time.. This servant woman said that she had no way of traveling. The 
girl said: “I shall give you two of my best ponies, and I want you to 
take these moccasins and bracelets to that young man, and tell him 
that he is a brave man; that I want him very badly; and that when he 
shall come to my tipi I shall have six tipi pegs drawn up on the north 
side of the tipi where my bed is; that when he shall reach in his hand 
I will feel for the bracelet, and if I find it upon his wrist I shall know 
that it is he.” So the girl took the servant woman out of the camp, 
caught two of her ponies, and they rode many miles. The girl then 
handed the bracelets, moccasins, and something to eat to the servant 
woman and told her to go to her people. The woman thanked the 
girl and went back to her people. 
She came to the village of the Arikara. In the night she went to 
the dances. She asked one woman where Rabbit-Boy was. It hap- 
pened that on this night the young man was dancing, so the woman 
went and danced with the young man, then whispered to him and told 
him that she wanted to see him. The young man thought that she 
wanted to marry him, but when they were away from the people the 
woman told Rabbit-Boy how the girl in the enemy’s camp had helped 
her to get away; that it was the girl who had her tipi in the center of 
the village every time he went through; that the girl wanted him; and 
that she had given him the moccasins and the bracelets for him to wear 
when he should go to her village. The young man said, “I will go.” 
So the young man started that night. He traveled all the next day and 
the next night before he reached the enemy’s camp. He went to the 
