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Calf finally consented ; so they went on. Yellow-Calf was satisfied and 
happy, for this young man was handsome and had a quiver filled with 
arrows, and a bow. 
In the evening they came to a lake, and Young-Fagle told Yellow- 
Calf that they must take a swim and wash themselves; that it was not 
right that they should go to the village without being washed. So 
Yellow-Calf went into the lake first and washed. When she came out, 
Young-Eagle, with his leggings and all his things on, waded into the 
water for some distance. He told Yellow-Calf to watch for him. He 
dived, and stayed a long time under the water. Towards evening, at 
dusk, Young-Eagle came out of the water, having all his clothes on. 
He came upon the bank, and Yellow-Calf saw that he was not the same 
young man who had left her a little while before. This young man 
now was not so tall, nor was he handsome. His hair was unkempt, 
his nose was all covered with sores, and he seemed to have vermin. 
The robe he had on was a little piece of buffalo robe. His leggings 
were made of deer skin, but were very dry. ‘His belly looked so large 
and plump that people would take him for a “burnt-belly” boy or a 
“burnt-fingered” boy. Yellow-Calf became scared, but she thought 
Young-FEagle was only making fun, so she took him home that night. 
Young-Eagle lay down by the side of Yellow-Calf, and the next 
morning, when the parents arose to prepare the meal, they went to the 
girl and found a young man lying by her. The old people, knowing 
that Yellow-Calf had been away for some time, thought, of course, that 
she had got married, and had brought her husband home. They waked 
the young man. He did not attempt to wash, but jumped at the pot 
with the food in it, and he licked the mush off from the spoon. The old 
folks looked at him, and were sorry that Yellow-Calf had brought him. 
Yellow-Calf, too, was ashamed of him. She prayed hard in her heart 
that the young man might turn into the young man that she had first 
been with. But the young man remained the same and the people made 
fun of him. They called him the “Big-Belly-Boy.” The boy acted 
childishly all the time. When there was battle going on the boy never 
went out, but stayed around the lodge. 
One time the boy heard that a war-party was going out. He told 
the girl to tell her youngest brother that when the party should be out 
three days he should get some long intestines from the buffalo that 
the warriors would kill, and also some bones; these he should put in 
the fire; and that in the night he would hear the whistling of a young 
eagle, and he must know that it was his brother-in-law coming. The 
girl told her youngest brother all that Young-Eagle had said, and the 
