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to eat that the chief gave them, and then there would be something pre- 
sented to them for singing to Young-Boy-Chief. At the chief’s daugh- 
ter’s home, after her child was born, her parents asked her many times 
to tell them to whom the child belonged. They told her that some one 
ought to come and see the child, if her husband was not living with 
her. As she refused every man who came to her, now that she had 
brought the child in this way, the child having no father, they told 
her that she must either leave the place or tell whose was the child. 
Still she would not tell. She still had hope that her man would come 
back to her some night with the promised things for the child. Every 
day her parents kept asking her about this. She got very tired of wait- 
ing, and determined that the very next time she heard about the men 
singing for the chief’s son she would go and take the child to him and 
make the people think that he was the father. The next time she 
heard about the men singing for Young-Boy-Chief she started for his 
place. On her arrival there she saw large crowds of women on the 
edge of the crowd of men, and she saw that no woman could get near 
to where the singing was going on. She went through the crowd of 
women and was told not to go further, for the women were not allowed 
there, especially those having children. But still she kept going, until 
she came where the young man was; then she placed the child in the 
young man’s arms and turned back by the way she had come, before 
the singing was over. The men, having found out that Young-Boy- 
Chief had a child by the strange woman, stopped singing. The child 
was left with Young-Boy-Chief. When the chief’s daughter started 
off, the chief’s son got up with the child in his arms and followed her. 
He thought that perhaps she would stop at her home, but he saw her 
pass her home; he followed her. Then the folks saw to whom the 
child belonged and followed the chief’s son. 
The chief’s son thought that the chief’s daughter would soon look 
back and stop to see her people, but she kept on going and did not look 
back. After they had gone a long way the child began to cry. The 
chief’s son then called to the chief’s daughter to stop and let the child 
nurse, saying that if she stopped he would live with her and the child. 
But she would not stop, and the child kept crying. Finally the chief’s 
son began to cry, for it made him feel badly to hear the child cry and to 
see his mother leaving them. She kept going until Young-Boy-Chief 
saw a large lake. The chief’s daughter was headed for it, and he began 
to think that after she should come to the lake perhaps she would stop 
for them, and that perhaps she wanted to take a bath before she should 
turn back to speak to him. Then he stopped crying, but the child did 
not. Finally the chief’s daughter reached the edge of the water, took 
