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the war-party. They wondered who he was. He went on and got 
ahead of them. He was the first in the village. He went on through. 
He entered first so as to frighten everybody in the village. The people 
in the ‘village were awakened, and unable to get their weapons and 
fight because of their fear. So the war-party had an easy time fighting 
them. The only weapon the boy had was a war-club. He wore a 
war-bonnet that none of the war-party had ever seen. It was hair 
dyed red. When he got through the village he went back to the creek, 
dived in, and when he came out he was the same as before. He then 
placed himself in position to watch the robes. He saw the people com- 
ing bringing captives and scalps, and they were talking about the 
strange person, for no one in the crowd had such a dress as Wets-the- 
Bed wore. When the men got back they kept talking about the man 
they had seen in the lead, but they could not find out who he was. The 
next day when they arrived home dances were made. When the boy 
got home the old people had to get up and have a dance by themselves, 
since the boy had been in the party. The men in the village talked 
about the man who had led in the attack upon the enemy. They were 
not able to find out who he was. 
Long after the war-party returned the same leader announced to 
his warriors that he was about to send out another war-party. The 
news came to Wets-the-Bed, who went home and told his grandparents 
that another war-party was going out and that he wanted to go with it. 
His grandfather and grandmother thought that they had better allow 
him to go, for he had been once, and if he had endured once, he might 
go again. A day was set to start. When the day came all started and 
the boy followed. When they camped late in the evening the boy was 
seen again. The men said nothing whatever about him this time. After 
dark the leader told his people to keep their eyes on the person that 
should be in the lead when they should make the attack on the enemy, 
for he knew that he himself was a pretty fast runner, and when he saw 
this young man go ahead he knew there surely must be some one 
who could run faster than he. On the next day, early in the morning, 
two spies were sent out. While on the road the spies found the enemy’s 
camp and returned to report to the leader what they had seen, saying 
they had found the village of the enemy. They went near enough to 
the village to attack it. When they came to the place they dressed them- 
selves and got ready to make the attack. They left behind them their 
robes and things that they did not need in care of Wets-the-Bed. When 
they started out, the boy turned around and went to the creek, dived 
into it, and came out changed. He went to attack the village. His 
