The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-19

lodge, and as he came near to this
the door was opened by a little girl,
and walking in he found himself in
front of a very old man ad an old
woman VINO sat on the left side Of
the lodge with their heads bowed.
HE sat down opposite these
strange people. He saw that the
old couple were wrinkied, ragged and
quite poor. Then the old woman said
to her husband: My child has travel
ed a long ways to the country of his
enemies to get the body of the man
you drowned. 1 begged you not to
eat his body as his friends would
come to claim 1t, and you see now
they have
He may have what is left of his
friend, said the old man. He will
find it near the door
'"Then Thunder Medicine looked in
the placed indicated and found all
the bones of Slender Woman except
the skull. While he was examining
these remains, the old man led up a
horse which looked like those used
by the whites except that the hair
was like that of those animals that
live in the water. This horse the old
man offered to Thunder Medicine.
and when he was about to take it,
the old woman said: Don't take il,
my child
Thunder Medicine did not un
derstand this, and the old woman
said: That horse is not like the
horses Of your people, and you will be
an enemy to your people if you take
him. He will bite the Crows and
what he bites, dies. / warn you, do
not take the horse
Upon hearing this, Thunder Me
dicine thanked the old man, but re-
fused the horse. This pleased the
old woman, and as if afraid to have
him stay longer, she said:
My child's friend stands on the
bank of the river crying for him
r thinking he has persisted like Slender
Woman who he came to seek. Let
him go that he may comfort his
friend, and return to his people with
the bones of Slender Woman
Z Very well, said the old man, Let
S him stand upon the palms OF my
hands and shut his eyes and he
I placed his hands IN the ground SO
S that Thunder Medicine could step in
o to them.
Thunder Medicine did as he had
o been told and felt himself going very
rapidly through the air, and not
knowing how it had been done, he
{ found himself standing on dry land
on the opposite side of the river
from Long Horse, who was WALKING
l. up and down beating himself and
mourning for him as one who haC
died. Thunder Medicine called on.
to him and great was his surprise
r to see him alive.
.e after his strange experience il
.e the water, Thunder Medicine was
< little afraid to enter into it again
. but soon he ventUred and to hi
If amazement he found himself held NJ
st by the same soft bottom that hat
a held him up before and he crossed
( with safety bringing the remains o
D. Slender Woman with him. He Wake,
IT across without sinking deeper thar
On his waist in water that was man.
he feet deep.
T. "His friend met him at the shore
N saw that he had the remains of Slen
IT der Woman, and listened with won
ID der at the story of Thunder Med
a cine's terrible experiences. The re
mains of Slender Woman were bur
III led, and this made Thunder Med
ne cine a more prominent medicine ma
a. among the Crows. Such, my sons,
he ArapOOash's story of the Under-Ws
of "ArapOOash, my sons, was killed
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