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herself and allowed the younger girl to lie with him. The people of the 
chief’s village would now gather at the chief’s lodge, sit up part of the 
night and talk about the past. While they were with the head chief 
sometimes they would whisper, and say, “I do not see what the chief’s 
son-in-law is good for.” Wets-the-Bed, while living with the chief’s | 
daughters, went home daily and came back at night. One day as he 
went back to his old home it happened that buffalo were seen on the 
north side of the village, and the men from the village gathered around 
the buffalo and killed them. It happened that Wets-the-Bed was at 
his home. When the men were butchering buffalo Wets-the-Bed said 
to his grandfather: “Go out there and get me some intestines. When 
you get there, help yourself and cut off the intestines. Bring them to 
me. I am hungry for them.” The grandfather said: “I do not want 
to go. You know how we are treated. If I go there they will harm 
me.” But the boy said: “Go on.” The old man thought much of his 
grandson, and so he went to the place where they were butchering. He 
grabbed at the intestines and was about to help himself, when all at 
once one man came around and said to him: “What are you doing? 
This is not yours. Why do you help yourself? It is right that you 
should ask for what you want.’ The old man said nothing. They 
made the old man put down the intestines, and they bored a hole 
through his cheeks, cut off some hide and tied it through the hole and 
sent the old men home. When he returned home he was covered with 
blood. As he entered he said to the boy: “I told you they would do 
something to me.” The boy said: “That is all I want to know.” The 
boy went out and dived in the creek. When he came out he was the 
same as when with the war-party attacking the enemy. He went where 
the men were butchering. He attracted everybody’s attention. ‘All 
looked, and they asked one another if they knew the man. No one 
could tell who he was. Wets-the-Bed asked who it was that had cut 
his grandfather’s cheeks. They pointed out the man. Wets-the-Bed 
took a knife and served the man as he had served his grandfather. He 
then commenced to talk to the people who were butchering, telling them 
that he had always thought that he was of some use to them; that he 
was doing them some good through his powers; that through him they 
had easier times in attacking the enemy; but that now, the more good 
he did them the worse they treated him; that they were treating his 
people worse than ever. He went back to the creek, jumped in and 
changed himself, then came back to his place. 
The people began to talk about what they had seen, and many 
said: “I always thought that Wets-the-Bed must be the one who had 
