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to some one, and that late that evening he wanted all the men to hang 
up their war-bonnets, so that the woman could come and walk around to 
see who had the prettiest bonnet, and the one whose bonnet she thought 
was the prettiest was to have her. Then all the men passed out, await- 
ing the time to come. That evening they all hung out their war- 
bonnets. Man-having-greater-Powers-than-any-other-Man hung out 
his bonnet on.one of the highest tipi poles, and everybody else had 
his hung up. The Coyote hung his bonnet, too, and as he looked out 
to see how everybody’s else bonnet looked, he saw at the chief’s place 
one hung up that looked as though it had a fire flying around it. The 
Coyote then called the chief, telling him that his place was on fire. The 
Coyote kept hallooing at the chief, telling him that his place was on 
fire. Just then the woman came out to look around at the bonnets, 
and to see who had the prettiest bonnet. The Coyote was then right 
close to the chief’s place, and he began to tell the young woman that 
he had the prettiest bonnet, and asked her to come to his place to see 
his bonnet. After she had looked all around she looked up above her 
father’s place and saw a bonnet hanging up there, and she thought that 
that was the prettiest bonnet of all, because it was different from any 
other bonnet, and so she called it the best one. This bonnet belonged 
to Man-having-greater-Powers-than-any-other-Man. The chief then 
told the men to take down their bonnets, for there was one already 
chosen to be the husband. ‘This made the third one of the sisters a 
wife of Man-having-greater-Powers-than-any-other-Man. The Coyote 
went off discouraged, because he could not coax the woman to choose 
his bonnet. 
Time went on, people doing the same old things, the men doing 
the hunting and also sending out war-parties, for this was their cus- 
tom in those times. Long afterward, again the chief called the men 
to come to his place. Then the men all came about the place wherein 
the chief resided. When everybody had arrived the chief was asked 
why he had called them together. The chief then said that his daughters, 
the two youngest ones, were old enough to become some one’s wives, 
and that he wanted them to choose their ht3bands. He said that all 
the men must dance that evening, so that his two daughters could see 
them, and that whosoever they might think to be the funniest dancer 
could have the two girls. It being early in the day the men went about 
their business and waited for evening to come. When the time came, 
the men built up several big fires, so that there would be light enough 
for the girls to see who was the funniest dancer. After this was done 
the dancing began. The men had all their best clothes on, for they all 
