THE STORY OF NOT-KNOW-WHO-YOU-ARE. 227 
them at the end with a burnt stick. You decided to have the beast 
guess the meaning of the poles and the black marks. You thought that 
after the animal had failed to guess aright you would kill him and cut 
off his feet and tie them to the upper end of the poles.” While the girl 
was telling this, everybody’s attention was attracted, for they thought 
that perhaps the girl was making a correct guess. After this guess, 
Not-know-who-you-are arose from his bed and told the people to 
“move away, for there was the one woman that guessed aright about the 
poles. The crowds of people began to move to their homes, and the 
three sisters of the girl who had guessed correctly began to make fun 
of the girl, for she was so very ugly, and many good-looking girls had 
failed to guess correctly. After the people were all gone the girl was 
taken into Not-know-who-you-are’s lodge. When darkness came they 
went to the creek and the girl was told to jump in the creek. When 
she came out of the water she was changed to a good-looking girl. 
Now, Not-know-who-you-are went out to trail the beast. As he went 
out he found the trail of the beast, but it seemed to him that the tracks 
were pretty old. He followed them up for many days, until he came to 
fresh tracks. As he went along he kept himself well hidden, in erder 
that the animal might not see him first. When the tracks became fresh 
he saw on the ground and in the grass where the animal’s tail had 
passed, and the ground and the grass had been burnt by it. Finally, 
as he was going up the hill he crept close to the ground to prevent the 
animal from seeing him first. He finally came to tthe animal when it 
was not expecting any one. Not-know-who-you-are showed himself to 
the animal. When it saw him it came to him, angry as it could be. 
Not-know-who-you-are told the animal to make a guess as to what the 
poles were for. But the animal said: “I do not care anything about 
the poles, but I know what you have come here for. You are looking 
for me, that you may kill me. While you were in your former village 
and the people sent out war-parties which returned with scalps and cap- 
tives and had their dances at night, and while the dances were going 
on, you heard some one crying, instead of dancing and singing, and 
you wanted to know what could have happened. After you had heard 
why the people cried you thought that if you would go on the war- 
path, on your return you could protect your people from me, but when 
you had your dances and expected the people to have a good time and 
continue your dances all night, I interrupted the dances at midnight, 
and carried off one of your people. You decided that you would move 
from your former village into the village you are now living in. You 
thought that by sending out a war-party you could, on your return, look 
