48 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
but herself; that she should not open the door until after the child 
should be born; that the child must be called Young-Flint-Stone (Taha- 
dia) ; that she must not let him know where his father was until he 
should become old enough, for he himself was going to a far distant 
place, and be there ‘for all time ; that he was tired of going out to the old 
scenes of wars; and that he was going where he could be near his 
enemies. 
After telling all this he at once set out on a war expedition. Of 
course there were a good many followers who went along with ‘him. 
He went towards the south. He kept on going, and it took him so long 
that some of the older men died on the way, of old age, until he had but 
four men left. He kept on going until one of these gave out and then 
there were three with him. They kept on going until another gave out 
and this left with him but two men. Continuing their journey, another 
gave out, and this time there was left but one man along with him, and 
this man finally gave out and this left him alone to seek for himself a 
place to live, and he went on nearer to his enemies. He kept on until he 
found a high cave-like place, and this he made his permanent home, and 
there were his enemies near his new home. Here he lived for a long 
while. Whenever he felt like fighting he would go and attack his 
foes and cut off their heads. Being a man with great power there was 
never an arrow that could hit him. He secured a long pole, which he 
stuck up in front of his place, on which he hung the heads of his 
enemies. | 
The time came when his son was born, and he grew rapidly, and 
finally he got to be aman. The child of the Healthy-Flint-Stone-Man 
began to ask this mother if he had any father, and she told him that his 
father had gone away a long distance to live, and was never to return. 
One time the boy asked his mother to grind enough meal for ‘him to 
take along with him while he went out to look for his father. This was 
done, and the young man set out in search of his father. Young-Flint- 
Stone, being. famous like his father, traveled fast, and he found the 
trail of his father. He was on the road for a good while, until he ran 
on to one of the men who had given out. When he got near to this 
man, he found him too angry to see him, and the man asked why he had 
come around him. He then took out a handful of meal and put it in 
the man’s mouth, and then the man had to believe that it was some one 
from the village he himself had come from, and he said: “Oh, yes! 
This reminds me of being in 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.” Then the man said 
/ 
