168 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
Young-Boy-Chief,” and the woman said, “I am the chief’s daughter.” 
They came closer to one another and commenced to talk about whether 
they should go to his or her home. Finally they decided to go off in 
the distance, where they could live permanently by themselves. Young- 
Boy-Chief said he would go back to his home and get what things he 
needed, and he told the chief's daughter to do the same and to meet 
him again where they were. They departed to their homes to get what 
they needed, so as to be ready to leave the village. After a short time 
both returned. They started toward the south and traveled that night 
until nearly daylight, when they went to sleep for a while, and the 
next morning they started out again, traveling fast, for they knew that 
some one would be after her, and in order to get her clear out of sight 
they would have to travel fast. ‘They traveled the whole day and 
stopped when it was dark. Two more days they traveled before finding 
a good place to live. At the end of the fourth day they found a place 
which just suited them. The woman commenced to fix up the place, 
making a grass-lodge, while the man hunted. Finally they had their 
home prepared. 
The parents of the woman sent out men to look for her, but they 
failed to find her. Sometimes Young-Boy-Chief would say: ‘‘When- 
ever we get a child I will go home and get what things we need for a 
cradle. I have dogwood sticks ready for making the cradle, and I have 
an otter skin for wrapping around the child’s cradle. I have some hair 
to cover the child’s eyes while in the cradle. I have a small pipe bone, 
to be used under the child’s heels when in the cradle. I also have an- 
other thing, a round, flat shell with two holes in the rim, that the child 
can have for a cup to drink out of.’ Long afterwards the woman be- 
came pregnant. A boy was born to them, of which they, of course, 
were very proud. Young-Boy-Chief would go out hunting while his 
woman and the boy remained at home. This is the way they lived. 
Some time afterward the young man thought of his home. He began 
to think about leaving his wife and child. One time when he was out 
hunting he took the trail to his old home. He left his wife and child 
far behind him. It took him but a short time to reach home. His 
parents were glad to see him, but he did not say anything about being 
married to the chief’s daughter, nor about leaving her and the child far 
away from the village. He remained at home, and his wife wondered 
why he did not return. Young-Boy-Chief had now resumed his former 
life as if unmarried. Men came to sing for him while he was seated 
on the lap of one of the men. Still they thought him a young man 
without wife or child. 
