GREAT-SOUTH-STAR, PROTECTOR OF WARRIORS. 61 
son, Young-Flint-Stone.” His father then began to push him around 
towards his war-club. Then Young-Flint-Stone pushed his father away 
from it, but his father kept pushing him towards it, still believing some 
one was trying to trick him. Young-Flint-Stone finally succeeded in 
untying the sack, and he took out a handful of meal and put it into his 
father’s mouth. Then his father asked him to loose him, and throwing’ 
his head back, said: “O, yes; that is the very thing; it tastes just 
like what they had where I came from; this puts me in mind of Where- 
Blackbirds-lit-on-elm-Tree, or Stone-Corn-Mills-lying-on-Hill-side, or 
Large-elm-Tree-near-Edge-of-the-Village, or Where-large-Ears-of- 
Corn-grow. Surely you are my son. When I left her, you were still 
in your mother’s womb and I gave you the name you bear. Well, I 
am a good long way from home, and it just suits me to remain here. 
All the time I lived at the place you are from I had to go a long way 
with war-parties, and so I thought it to be best for me to be where I 
am now. I can not go back with you.” Young-Flint-Stone noticed that 
his father’s hair was turning into flint-stone, and he noticed the pole 
that was stuck up outside his father’s place, which had on it many 
skulls, old and fresh. 
Next morning the Protector-of-Warriors insisted that Young- 
Flint-Stone should go with him to help him fight some of his enemies. 
They both went down the hill, traveled all that morning, until they 
came to a village, and there they met their enemies. Young-F'lint- 
Stone was the first one to kill a man, when his father also killed a man, 
then they turned and came home with the scalps. Young-Flint-Stone 
did not remain here very long before his father asked him to return 
home, for the folks were looking for him to come home. The Protector- 
of-Warriors said: “It is very near time for the next generation to come, 
and, where I am, I will be known as the Protector-of-Warriors. Tell 
the people that I am here, never to return, and that I shall be seen 
as the South-Star; and in the next generation, when anyone sends 
out a war-party they shall make their offering of smoke, and then, if 
I take pity on whoever offers the smoke, he shall receive good fortune, 
easy times in meeting enemies, and shall always return victorious, like 
other people when I was living.” He then asked Young-Flint-Stone 
to take back with him a scalp to his wife and father’s mother, and his 
sisters. Young-Flint-Stone then departed from his father, and as he 
passed the men who had given out along the way they said that they 
would like to remain where they were. He traveled on and on, and 
no one knew how long it took him to reach home, but he finally ar- 
rived with the scalps, which he delivered to his folks for the Protector- 
