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The next thing he knew, he found himself on earth. He and his 
wife waited until night before they entered their home. About dark 
the woman asked her husband to go on home and have the place 
cleaned up, and to have the grass-lodge smoked with burning sage. He 
must tell his folks not to weep when she should enter, for that was a 
command they had to obey. The man went on to his home, and his 
people asked him where he had been. He told his mother to clean up 
the place and smoke the room; that he was going to bring his wife in; 
that when she should come in no one should weep; but they must be 
glad to see her again. He told them that if they wept they would do 
him wrong. The man’s mother at once began cleaning up the place 
and had it smoked up. Then the young man went after his wife and 
they went to his home, and the people were glad to see the woman, 
for they knew that it made the young man happy to have his wife back 
from the world of the dead. 
They had been at home but a few days when the young man got 
up a war-party and set out on the war-path. They were gone about 
ten or fifteen days, when they found some enemies and defeated them, 
and scalped many. On their return they entered their homes in tri- 
umph, and the young man’s name was on everybody’s lips and he was 
highly praised. When the dancing was going on at night he remem- 
bered about what he had been told to do. 
It was not very long before he sent out another war-party, and 
many of the men were anxious to go with him, so that a great war-party 
was led out by the man who had come from Spirit-Land. They met 
some enemies, and without losing any of their men they gained another 
great victory, having been on the war-path about twenty days. On his 
arrival he delivered some more scalps. He saved one to take to his 
wife’s people up above. The night after his return he took the scalp 
and placed it where he had placed the other, so that his wife’s people 
could get it. After he had offered the scalp to the dead people he re- 
turned to his home and joined in all of the dances. The dances con- 
tinued from morning till night, and from night till morning. He and 
his wife would go together to the dance, and the man’s wife would join 
in with some other women and dance with them. Usually the men did 
the singing, especially at the dances of the women. Long after the 
dancing ceased the young man sent out another war-party, and at this 
time a good many more men accompanied him, because they all knew 
that there was no doubt as to his winning a victory when he met the 
enemy. Again they returned home victorious, having met some of 
the enemy and fought with them without losing any of their own men. 
When they came home, their people met them before entering the 
