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and again. The four days finally passed. Before starting out the four 
sisters pledged themselves to be the wives of the one who should first 
see the enemies. This was what made Corn-Meal-Boy want to go. 
After all had started Corn-Meal-Boy followed. They all went a long 
way and camped for a night’s rest. Of course, as was the custom, they 
sent out men to spy. Next morning before they started they looked in 
the direction whence they had come and saw some one coming. He 
appeared very small and as he came nearer, proved to be Corn-Meal- 
Boy. They waited until he came up with them. When he arrived at 
the place, the Coyote abused him and sent him back, then they started 
again, traveling until night, when they all stopped. When Young-Man- 
Chief announced this the Coyote appointed himself to go along with 
his friend, “Nawane.”* This is what the Coyote called all of his friends. 
When they were resting Corn-Meal-Boy passed the war-party, going 
beyond it, in the east direction in which the party was moving. The 
next morning, before daylight, Young-Man-Chief and the Coyote 
started out. They went for some distance, and found Corn-Meal-Boy 
lying down asleep. They went up to him and told him to go right back 
where the others were. They continued their trip a long way, and when 
they looked back they saw Corn-Meal-Boy still coming. They stopped 
again, and the Coyote abused him, and told him to go right back. The 
two started again, but still saw Corn-Meal-Boy following. The Coyote 
grew angry, and turned him over and whipped him. Young-Man- 
Chief thought that he had better take Corn-Meal-Boy along. He got 
the poor boy on his back; for they were going pretty fast. Finally they 
stopped to rest and smoke. Then the chief wanted to turn back, for 
there was no one in sight. The place where they rested was a little 
hill. The boy went to the top, looked over the hill, turned right back, 
and came back stooping, on the run all the way. It attracted the chief’s 
attention. He asked Corn-Meal-Boy what he had seen and the boy 
said he had seen smoke, and suspected some one to be living there. So 
Young-Man-Chief and Corn-Meal-Boy both went, and they saw a great 
village of the Tricksters, their enemies. When they came back the 
Coyote begged Young-Man-Chief to tell the young women that he had 
found the enemies, so he could get the four women for his wives. They 
at once started right back, and traveled pretty fast. They arrived at 
the camp at midnight, wakened the people and told what Young-Man- 
Chief had seen. So everybody came to build a big fire, and they all 
gathered around him and he began his story: “At the beginning of the 

*A special term applied to a friend on a war expedition to whom has been presented a scalp 
by his companion, 
