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the village, where he saw a good many young people playing the game 
of shinny. When the boys saw him they began to call him, “Bad-Boy, 
where did you come from?” He went into the first tipi he came to and 
there he found an old man, old woman, and a small boy. He was asked 
to go to a better place, but he refused to leave, and soon he began to do 
the same things that he had done when he was in his father’s village, 
going around the village and picking up parched corn that had been 
thrown away. Sometimes some people would invite him to eat with 
them ; and whenever he ate he would save some for the folks with whom 
he was living. They all knew him to be the chief’s son, and a bad boy; 
so that there were times that the boys of the village played a good many 
jokes on him, and had much fun with him. 
It being their habit to wander around, the time came when all 
moved from their village, going out on a big hunt. They all traveled 
on foot and carried their provisions along. ‘The people whom Bad- 
Boy lived with all went on this long journey with the people. Bad-Boy 
went along until they were a long way from the village, when ‘he 
thought of his war things, and commenced to think whether or not to 
turn back and go after them. Finally he thought he had better turn 
back and go after them. He turned right around, went back to the 
village, and to the place where he had left his war things. When he 
got his things he dressed himself and went on, following the people on 
the hunt. He traveled on and on until he overtook them. Bad-Boy 
then went on the south of the people, where he met a group of young 
women, who began to call to him and ask what he had and where he 
got his things. He followed the young women, having a club. They 
laughed at him and made fun of him; so that he pretended to be angry, 
and told them that if any one of them should make fun of him again he 
would have to club her. He kept driving them on, until he had driven 
them away from the hunting party. Then he said to them: “Let us 
set out on the war-path.” ‘The young women were willing. They made 
a camp, and Bad-Boy shot a deer before night, so that they had deer 
meat for supper. He got the women to tan the deer hide so that he 
could make a quiver for one of the young women. He finished it that 
night. He followed the instructions that his father had given him, but, 
instead of having men, he had women to perform for him; but, that it 
might not be known how ignorant he was, he had to instruct the two 
women. The next day they started out and continued to travel for 
fourteen or fifteen days, and every evening they camped. Bad-Boy 
killed deer and made quivers out of the hides, besides making bows and 
arrows for the young women to equip them for war. Every time they 
