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ashes and threw them on their heads, and made their heads the color 
of ashes, commanding that they should always be that way. He told 
them that he himself was Young-Boy-Chief. Again they started on 
their way to their home, and they finally came to a woman up in a tree 
crying. Young-Boy-Chief asked the woman what she was crying 
about. She said that when Young-Boy-Chief was living she had had 
all she wanted to eat. Young-Boy-Chief replied to her, saying he 
was Young-Boy-Chief. He commanded the tree to bear fruit (wild 
grapes). This woman was Red-Bird (Itschidisaskatsa)._ As they com- 
menced to journey again they traveled as fast as usual, until they came 
to a bunch of Deer. Young-Boy-Chief asked the Deer what was mak- 
ing them so happy. They answered that they were glad to hear of 
Young-Boy-Chief’s death. Young-Boy-Chief made every one of them 
stand still, and he pulled their ears out long, then scared them and made 
their eyes open wide. He then commanded that they should always 
be that way, and in the next generation they were always to be killed for 
meat. Then again they journeyed. Finally they ran across another 
man by a tree. They noticed this man was weeping. Young-Boy- 
Chief asked why he was weeping. He replied that he could not help 
but weep, for Young-Boy-Chief had died; that when Young-Boy- 
Chief was living he could get all he wanted to eat. Young-Boy-Chief 
told this man he had been rescued, and was again living, and was on 
the way to his home. Then the man, wiping his tears away, walked up 
toward Young-Boy-Chief and hugged him, for he was the man who 
had always supplied him with food. Young-Boy-Chief commanded 
the tree to bear fruit, and there was the tree bearing fruit (persim- 
mons). This man was the Opossum (Kadaiok). The Opossum then 
climbed the tree and had all he wanted to eat. Again they journeyed 
until they reached home. The weeds had grown up around their place. 
When they entered their grass-lodge they saw no sign of Little-Dog. 
Little-Dog had starved to death, and all there was left of him was a 
pile of hair. This young woman took the hair and bones, went to the 
creek, and threw them in the water. Then she called Little-Dog, saying 
she had brought their brother home; that he should come out of the 
water. So Little-Dog came out of the water, happy as he could be. 
They, of course, had plenty of meat. Little-Dog had never eaten any 
meat nor drank any water. Young-Boy-Chief and his sister lived in 
their home together again. Young-Boy-Chief hunted the same as he 
used to do, and they had all the meat they wanted. Young-Boy-Chief 
now told his sister, that since he had had so much trouble, and she had 
had a hard time to get him, and since ‘he feared something else would 
