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Accordingly a band from this clan swam and forded the wide river,

crossed the island, and in the early evening cae of cottonwoods Their scouts saith ae of tepees that le, saw the

white nation gather at the ; then saw thehed The white nation was strong, but they did not put out

guards at night! For a week the Sioux had watched them, and they knew

about that It would be easy to run off all the herd and to kill a fehites even now, beginning the sport before the big battle of to-ether

But when at length, as the handle of the Great Dipper reached the point

agreed, the line of the Sioux clanse of

trees and out into the cover of a little slough that e of tepees on wheels, a quarter of a round and shot into them Five of their warriors

fell Tall men in the dark came out and counted coup on them, took off

their war bonnets; took off even more below the bonnets And there was a

warrior who rode this way and that, on a great black horse, and who had

a strange war cry not heard before, and who seemed to have no fear So

said the clan leader when he told the story of the repulse

Taken aback, the attacking party found cover But the Sioux would charge