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go around in the opposite direction instead of passing it around like 
the first one did—north, east, south, and west—but this time he should 
go from north to the west, south and east. After the smoking should 
be over, he must have his man empty the pipe the same as before. He 
must send out his two men before daylight, to see if they were near to 
some enemy; he must have his choice whether to attack the enemy in 
the village or in the open; and if his men should come back, having 
seen the enemy, they must come back running, having painted their 
backs with burnt grass, and bring the news to him. ‘Then he should 
ask the two spies to tell him all about what they had seen; and after 
they should tell it, it would be his place to command his men to fix 
themselves up and be ready for war. In dressing himself he must wear 
the white soft feather on his head and take his war-club, shield, bow 
and arrows. He was told how he must be painted with white clay, and 
that it should always be his luck to find the enemy without being seen. 
These were the instructions that Bad-Boy received from his father, 
when he asked his father to give him the powers that he had before 
offered him. 
Bad-Boy kept all the things to himself, and therefore on the next 
morning he was asked to go to the creek and take a bath, then paint 
himself up, before he should try to get some one to serve under him. 
He was told that whenever he did this he must choose a foggy day— 
the kind of a day chosen by a man of great powers before sending out 
a war-party. Bad-Boy took a notion to send out a war-party one 
foggy day. He took his pipe, filled it with tobacco, and went on his 
way to select a man whom he wanted to serve under him. Arriving at 
a certain man’s lodge, he called and asked if the man was there. Then 
Bad-Boy entered the lodge and requested the man to rise, which he did. 
Bad-Boy spread his robe on the ground and asked the man to sit on it. 
Bad-Boy then took his pipe and offered it. When the man took the 
pipe Bad-Boy lighted it and asked the man to smoke, saying: “I want 
you to serve under me on the war-path.” The man accepted the pipe 
and asked Bad-Boy when he wanted to start. Bay-Boy told him that 
he wanted to wait a few days before starting. Bad-Boy then returned 
to his home. All that day he was quiet. On that night he took a notion 
to go somewhere else. Bad-Boy, bad boy as he was, thought that he 
had better be somewhere else, and show his powers. On the following 
day he left his home without telling his parents and his man who was 
to go along with him on the war-path. He traveled all that night and 
the next day until late in the evening, when he saw a village. He saw 
also, a cave-like pass, in which he left his things. ‘Then he went into 
