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Man-Chief to death, and now we are going to put you to death.” The 
dog jumped on the man and Young-Man-Chief killed the woman. Be- 
fore they turned back Young-Man-Chief captured a fine-looking young 
woman, then they turned back from the battlefield with all their men. 
Young-Man-Chief’s men captured many more, and scalped many people. 
So when they all met again Young-Man-Chief told his men that he had 
killed the woman and captured another woman to take her place with 
the father of the woman he had killed. They at once returned victorious 
to their homes. 
According to custom, while a party was out on the war-path, there 
was some one on the watch to see if they were returning, and when the 
watch saw some indications of people returning he made a sign called 
“Degairneayars,” which was the sign that the war-party was returning 
victorious. So the village people knew that the party was coming. 
When the war-party arrived at the village Young-Man-Chief went 
straight to where the father of the woman he had killed lived, and gave 
the Trickster young woman to him, and said that he'had killed his 
daughter and this woman was to be his daughter in her place; and the 
man was satisfied. Of course, when they returned they had all kinds of 
dances over their victory. So, Young-Man-Chief and the Old-Age-Dog 
returned to their home. 
Later on, Young-Man-Chief got married to a young woman. He 
had the habit of sleeping with his dog; so that when he was married 
they all slept together and ate together. The dog once told Young- 
Man-Chief that he was jealous. Later on, Young-Man-Chief sent out 
another war-party, leaving his dog at home in care of his wife. When 
the woman would go to bed the dog would lie down at the foot of her 
bed. It was not very long until they heard that the war-party was re- 
turning, and when it arrived they, of course, carried’ on dances. Though 
Young-Man-Chief left his dog at home the dog had such great powers 
that his master got through everything safely. They passed on until 
Young-Man-Chief took a notion to send out another war-party. He 
went out again, leaving his wife and the dog at home. On the night of 
the day that Young-Man-Chief left some man came to this woman’s bed 
and lying down beside her, asked why she kept the dog at the foot of 
her bed. The dog barked, and the man told the woman to kick the dog 
off from the bed. The woman kicked the dog off from the bed. Early 
the next morning the man left, and when the folks got up the dog was 
lying off the bed; and they wondered why it was. The folks tried to feed 
the dog, but he would not eat. So they asked the woman what she had 
done to the dog, and she said that the dog was cross and got off the bed 
