THE POOR HUNTER AND THE ALLIGATOR POWER. TE 
The people named him Deer-Head, because of his braveness in killing 
big deer. Deer-Head lived with the people many years and was well 
known among his tribe, but one time he disappeared. It was but a short 
time until the people noticed that he was missing, and they wondered 
what had become of him. 
Deer-Head had only one younger brother, and when the people would 
go and ask Deer-Head’s wife where he was she could not tell, for she 
did not know where he was or what had become of him. Finally one 
of the men went where Deer-Head’s little brother was, and he asked 
him if he knew where his big, brave brother was, and he replied that 
his brother had gone home ; that some one came after him during the 
night and had taken him away thatsame night. Then they asked him 
if he knew which direction they took, and he said that he did not know 
where he went, but that he said he was going home. 
While out hunting a long time after this one of the men found a 
large deer and the deer did not try to get away from him. When he 
came near he shot the deer, but the deer kept on walking very slowly 
and the man followed until the deer finally went over the hill where 
the man could not see him, and then he heard some one calling him to 
come on, and it was the deer that was talking. The man did not keep 
on, but turned and started back home. When he got home he told the 
whole story of the deer, and then the people thought the story of the 
deer was true, and that Deer-Head had changed into a deer. 
42. THE BOY WHO MARRIED A MOUNTAIN-LION.* 
A little boy often told his parents that he was a red mountain-lion. 
No one believed him, but they called him Red-Mountain-Lion. When 
he grew to manhood he was a successful and famous hunter. He went 
off alone for days at a time and always brought back much game. One 
time it was noticed that he acted queerly when he returned from the 
hunt, and so the next time he went his brother followed him. He 
tracked him through the timber up the rocky side of a mountain. 
He heard voices among the rocks, but could not see any one. He 
climbed on until he saw just above him a cave in the side of a steep 
wall. He looked in and saw his brother in there with a female moun- 
tain-lion. He went home and told what he had seen. After a few 
days Red-Mountain-Lion came home and acted stranger than ever. 
One time he heard some men talking about going to the cave and killing 
a mountain-lion that some of them had seen there. The man started out 
at once and alone to hunt, and he went straight toward the cave. 

*Told by Wing. 
