THE MOURNING LOVER. rye 
trees upon the top of the opening. They then laid fresh meat of deer 
or rabbit, which had been skinned, upon the limbs. Here these people 
stayed several days, catching eagles. They would hide in the cave, 
while one man would watch. out. The magpies were the first birds to 
come and eat of the meat that they had placed upon the top of the cave. 
Then, when the magpies flew away they knew that an eagle was com- 
ing. They caught several eagles. 
One afternoon the Sioux marched down from the hills, where 
they had been discovered. The Sioux saw that they could not do any- 
thing to the eagle catchers, for they were in a cave, so they tried to be 
friendly with them. They asked them for some eagle feathers. ‘The 
leader of the party now went out and gave them some eagle feathers, 
walking backwards when he left them. There were some young men 
among the Sioux who wanted to fight. The Sioux attacked the 
Arikara. The leader kept all the young men in the cave and made 
them load their muzzle-loading guns, while he stayed at a certain dis- 
tance from the bank, and the first man to attack them on horseback he 
killed. He would throw away his empty gun and the boys would pass 
a loaded one to him. He would then start to another place on the bank, 
and again the first man on horseback to come toward him he would 
shoot and kill. Thus he kept up the fire, killing several. The Sioux 
finally gave up and retreated. In the night the hunters crawled out of 
the cave, took scalps from the Sioux, and returned to their village with 
scalps. | 
(9. THE MOURNING LOVER.* 
A man named Rolling-Log courted an Arikara woman, but she 
would not have him. One day a whole lot of Arikara men got together, 
and prepared to go hunting. Rolling-Log was one of them. This 
woman whom Rolling-Log wanted to marry went to him and said, 
“Tf you will bring home to me enough sinew to last a whole year I will 
marry you.” Rolling-Log said that he would try to get enough, for 
he wanted to marry this woman. He went south and killed many deer, 
black tails, and antelope. Rolling-Log got about twenty-four sinews, 
and he thought this was enough for the woman; so he went home. 
While the hunters were on the chase Rolling-Log’s girl had be- 
come sick and died. When Rolling-Log came home he at once went 
over in the evening, where the girl had lived. He had the sinew for 
the girl, and he stood outside in front of the entrance, waiting for the 
*Told by Two-Hawks. 
