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One time the Coyote paid the chief a visit, and said that he wanted 
all the chief’s men called for the purpose of getting the woman off 
from Young-Boy-Chief’s back. The chief called his men to his place 
and they asked him why he had called them. The Coyote then told 
them that he wanted them to help the chief’s son to get rid of the 
woman who was on his back. He selected four of the strongest men in 
the crowd. He then told Young-Boy-Chief to take hold of a pole of 
the grass-lodge while the four men pulled the old woman. The pulling 
hurt Young-Boy-Chief so that they had to stop, and they failed to 
pull the old woman off. Every day the men were at the chief’s place, 
watching Young-Boy-Chief, to see what was going to happen to him. 
One day there was a boy on the edge of the village shooting at birds. 
While he was shooting he shot at a bird, but missed it, and the arrow 
glanced some distance and lit near the place of an old man named 
Ears-Painted-red (Watatskatia), the Turtle. While there picking up 
his arrow, the boy heard the Turtle say: “I wonder how Young-Boy- 
Chief is getting on with the old woman on his back? It would be 
easy for me to get her off if they asked me to do it.” The boy lis- 
tened closely to the old man’s remarks, then he ran to Young-Boy- 
Chief’s home and entered. He was then about to say something, when 
they put him out of the place, and he returned to his play. One of the 
men finally spoke, saying: “Did not the boy say something about some 
one?’ Another man spoke, saying: “I believe the boy had some- 
thing to tell us.” They at once sent for the boy to find out what he had 
to say. They finally succeeded in finding him, and brought him before 
the chief to say what he had tried to say when entering the lodge the 
first time. The boy began to tell what he had heard some one saying 
at a certain place. He said that while he was out shooting birds he shot 
at a bird and missed it, and his arrow glanced some distance and landed 
right behind a man’s lodge. While there getting his arrow he heard a 
man saying that he wondered how Young-Boy-Chief was getting along 
with the old woman on his back, and that if they should ever call him 
he would very easily get the woman off. They at once sent the Coyote 
to bring the Turtle, that he might repeat what he had said. The 
Turtle said that he could take the old woman off the young man. As 
soon as he said this the old woman who was fastened to Young-Boy- 
Chief began to talk, saying that there was no one who could take her 
off, and she raged when the Turtle said he could unfasten her. The 
Turtle then ordered the chief to have four men go on a buffalo hunt 
and get the fat from the hump of the buffalo’s back. The chief at once 
sent out four men, and the Turtle returned to his home. Before he 
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