, 1891-07-23

} here, As I aid, and they were yer
glad to see rs, and they killed two dog
) and gave a great dance. II was
woman's dance, and Red Bird put Of
her beaded dress and her paint and al
? her ornaments. She had a necklace o
three rows of white beads mixed witt
| gold ones that came down to her waist
and long earrings of white shells, ant
J little gold bells that tinkled As sh,
danced up and down. She was a beau
! tifuI dancer. Her sister never woulC
! dance-she was such a strange girl
But she liked TO look on, and she
and | stood together at one of the win
dows.
Can the young men in their blankets
were hanging about to see and to run
after the young girls as they passed out
and in. When Red Bird came out
with her grandmother, | saw High Bear
he had covered his whole face with
the blanket, but | knew him by his
height and his walk. | saw him follow
and take hold of her, but she snatched
herself away from him and ran like a
rabbit. He caught her again and
threw his blanket about her. We fol-
lowed them and | heard her say 4
can't bear you! l hate your Then
suddenly he let go of her and was out
of sight in "A minute.
when we came up to Red Bird she
WIS laughing, but she looked angry,
and she just showed us the knife that
cleaned in her little hand before she
hid it again in her belt, under the folds
of her shawl. High Bear had a slight
cut in his hand the next morning, which
he said he did himself when cutting a
piece Of meat. He would not talk to
anybody and would not dance that
night, although they had a big grass
dance and gave away twelve ponies
among their guests, and we gave them
the finest deer skins and more than
twenty pairs of mocassins.
After three nights of visiting we
turned TO go back. AS we %journeyed
over the pine ridges we Travelled very
slowly, and the men were all day look
ing for deer. We all wished to taste
fresh meat again. We had camped
II evening in a deep valley, and | sat
in Lone Pines tent with my two nieces.
Red Bird was beading a tobacco pouch
and Blossoming Rose was making a
pair of moccasins, with one hundred
N II rows of porcupine work in red
and purple and the picture Off buTalo's
head on the instep-both of them for
Eagle Feather. The men from the
other lodges had all come in and eaten
Crt,t.ar Iafnra I ,n. DI,, .u,~l II
was now growing dark. He had shot
nothing, nor had any of the others. 1
wounded a doe in the shoulder. but the
creature got away from mer he ex-
claimed angrily, as he threw himself
down.
Red Bird led away the tired mare,
and Blossoming Rose gave her father
his supper. At last Red Bird said, MY
brother has not ONE home. oh, he'll
come by and by said her father, and
as he was very tired they soon lay down,
but the women could not sleep. At
dawn the men all went out in search Of
Eagle Feather, and the old grand
mother cried and bemoaned herself, but
the sisters worked quietly at the moe
casins and the tobacco pouch, though
the elder never spoke, and the younger
said often, 4 think he will be back
SOON
They found him a long distance
from camp in a valley among the pines.
High Bear and he had been hunting
together as they usually did, and the
men made High Beau take them to the
place where they parted. He said he
was going of in that direction said
his cousin, pointing southwark. The
sun was low and l wanted to get back
to camp, so as he would not come with
me left him and came back alone
First they found his white pony tied to
a tree, and n little further on they saw
him lying on his face with his gun on
the ground a little way off and a buck
deer lying dead beside it. He was shot
in the side and was quite cold.
Crying and weeping aloud they
carried him back to camp, and
when his sisters came to meet him
they pulled out handfuls of their
beautiful long hair and gashed their
arms and legs with knives, and
the old grandmother sang n death
song. So, crying and singing and cut
ting themselves, all along the road, they
carried him home and buried him with
his kindred IN the hill yonder. 1t is
five nights journey from the place
where lie died, but they made 1t in
three. 1t VA in the fall, but very
hot; so they covered tile body with
sweet leaves and wrapped it in many
blankets and skins, and bound it on
the back Of his pony, and so brought
it all the way from Red Cloud to the
Great Muddy river, and shot the white
pony on his grave Then they put a
ghost lodge and kept his ghost for tive
years longer. He was the only son.
and very dear to them.
The W sisters, you know, have
never married, and they never speak tc
their cousin. You know people said
that Eagle Feather could not have shot
himself by accident, for his gun lay toe
far away from him. and that If 4 stran
ger had killed him he would have taker
the pony and the gun Some though
1t was the work of the spirits, but most
5 said that High Bear killed his youn.
. cousin to revenge himself upon Rec
Bird for her refusal to marry aim, an,
: for that stab with the knife on tn,
: night of the dance, He said that h,
= knew nothing of it, and no one Eve
!, really found ont. Eagle Feather sleep
/. in the mOccaSins his sistar yvnS uorl, H.,