THE DEEDS OF WETS-THE-BED. IOQ 
people watched to see who he was. As he went along he was so fast 
that the party saw fire fly behind him, and the fire was of all colors. He 
entered the village in advance of the war-party. As he entered every- 
body was awakened and frightened, so that they were unable to protect 
themselves. They forgot to get their weapons. When Wets-the-Bed 
got through the village he went on around by another way and came 
to the creek, where he dived in the water and came out changed, and 
went back to the place where he was stationed and stayed until the war- 
party came back. When the men returned to the boy and their goods 
they went home, but the boy never got a scalp. It was the custom to 
take scalps to make presents when returning to the village. When the 
war-party got home they had their dances and the boy and his grand- 
parents also danced. 
Long after, the war-party went out again, and Wets-the-Bed again 
went along. This happened four times, always as before. At the end 
of the fourth time, when they arrived home the leader of the war- 
party began to think about the man who had always beat them to the 
village of the enemy. They wondered who it could be. The leader 
knew of no faster runner than himself. 
Once upon a time the leader called all of his men together at his 
place in the night. When the people had gathered, Wets-the-Bed went 
there also to show himself. As he came around, the quick-tempered 
man came to him and said, “You do not need to come around, for you 
have no chance to get the chief’s daughter for your wife.” The boy 
went around to hear what the chief had to say. The chief then offered 
his girls to the man who could prove that he had arrived at the village 
_before the rest of the warriors and had been in the strange dress and 
had run ahead of the war-party when they attacked the enemy. After 
he had announced this to the people every one was still. No one could 
prove that he was the man. Finally Wets-the-Bed rose to his feet and 
told the people that he was the man that was first in the attack upon 
the enemy. Then he sat down. The chief announced to the people 
again that he had always thought that Wets-the-Bed might have been 
the man. He said: “If that is true, I offer my girls to him if he can 
prove that he was the first to attack the enemy and return to the village.” 
The oldest of the girls did not like Wets-the-Bed. She wished that 
some one else might have proved himself to be the man. She deter- 
mined not to accept the boy. After Wets-the-Bed had proved he was 
first to attack the enemy the men began to return home. 
It was now bedtime. Wets-the-Bed went to bed with the two 
wives. The oldest of the girls did not like him, so she kept away by 
