a TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
The men started out to hunt the next day, and when they came to 
the cave they saw the foot-prints of a man and a mountain-lion leading 
away from it. They tracked them down the mountain and up another, 
and then they gave up and returned totheir homes. ‘The man did not 
return to his people, but many years afterward he was captured by a 
hunting party and carried to his home. He decided to stay at his home 
then. One autumn he and his brother decided to form a war party. 
The brother was to be the leader, and so he went off to get some power 
before starting. He wandered about alone until he found a rattlesnake 
skin and a red mountain-lion’s tail. He took them and then prayed 
to the rattlesnake and red mountain-lion for their powers. Then he 
returned home and hid the skin and mountain-lion tail, for he did not 
want his brother to know what he had. For some reason or another 
the war expedition was given up. Then the man should have thrown 
away the skin and tail, for the animals always want their gifts returned 
if they are not used for the purpose they have given them. If they 
are not used or returned something always happens to the man who has 
received them or to some member of his family. 
A long time after the war party had been given up Red-Mountain- 
Lion awoke one morning and heard aturkeycackling. He slipped out 
to catch the turkey, and while he was slipping upon the turkey he 
heard a rattlesnake by the side of him. He moved away and heard 
another. Again he jumped aside and heard still another. 
The woman prepared the morning meal and waited a long time for 
Red-Mountain-Lion to return; then his brother was sent to look for him. 
His brother found him unconscious and called some men to help carry 
him tothelodge. Red-Mountain-Lion was scalped, but the only tracks 
that could be found were those of a mountain-lion, and they were only 
around his head, and did not come from or lead to any place. They 
sent for the medicine-man. He came and after he had examined Red- 
Mountain-Lion he asked his brother if he had not planned a war expe- 
dition and prayed for power and received gifts from the animals. The 
brother admitted that he had. The medicine-man told him to return 
the gifts to the woods where he had found them, and told him that his 
brother should have known better than to have kept them. The man 
obeyed, and then they took Red-Mountain-Lion to the creek and bathed 
him, and he recovered, but he was always foolish. He lived to be an 
old man, but some one had to kill him in his old age, because he became 
more foolish and did many evil things. 
