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I50 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
ready for battle with the Tricksters. Once upon a time the women went 
to the woods to haul wood on their backs, and they were accompanied 
by the men. Young-Man-Chief was in the crowd and all the men had 
their weapons along, for they were always ready for their enemies. 
The men folks hunted a little while the women gathered wood. When 
the women returned home Young-Man-Chief remained behind, and 
looking behind, he saw a woman with the wood on her back, ready to 
leave. The woman called Young-Man-Chief to her. Young-Man-Chief 
turned back to see what she wanted. Then the woman got hold of 
him and would not release him, and they were there for a long while, 
and Young-Man-Chief begged the woman to let go. It got to be late 
in the evening, and they were attacked by the Tricksters. They 
retreated toward their homes and fought their way, and finally Young- 
Man-Chief left the woman and she was captured by the Tricksters, and 
she was taken away from her people. 
Young-Man-Chief went back to his home, feeling sorry for the 
captured woman. Arriving home, he was asked why he was still at 
large when everybody had returned home. He told how he and the 
woman had been attacked by the Tricksters, and how she had been 
captured for his sake. Young-Man-Chief regretted the loss of the 
woman, and he wandered about by himself for a long while, until the 
took a notion to go to the enemy’s place to look for the woman. He 
told his mother to make a pair of moccasins for him and one pair for 
the woman, and a robe for her. Then he asked his mother to grind 
enough corn meal to take along, for he was going on a long journey, 
and was going to look for the lost woman; he was going to set out at 
once. When everything he asked for had been made ready he turned 
toward the southwest, where he thought the enemy were living. He, of 
course, took along all his weapons, bow, arrows, and shield. For a long 
while he wandered around, looking for the homes of the Tricksters. 
He finally succeeded in finding their homes; but as it was getting late 
in the evening he made up his mind that he would not go in the main 
village until night. 
The next night he walked into the village and looked in every lodge 
he came to. He finally found one place where there were a great many 
people, and there he saw the woman sitting by a great, big man, whom 
he suspected to be her husband. He thought to himself: “Well, what 
must I do now in order to get her out?” The place was a tipi, and he 
had to look out for himself in order to escape notice; for he knew that 
he would be killed if discovered. He finally went around back of the 
tipi, took one of his arrows and punched a hole in the tipi. He took a 
