She Told Them To Take It, And They Took It To Their Hunting-Grounds, And Tried To Amuse It, But Only At Times Did They See Its Eyes Beam With Pleasure. One Day, While Busy In Their Encampment, They Were Unexpectedly Attacked By Unknown Indians.

The skirmish was long contested and bloody; many of their foes were slain, but still they were thirty to one.

The young men fought desperately till they were all killed. The attacking party then retreated to a height of ground, to muster their men, and to count the number of missing and slain. One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. Seeing that alone retain animation, he eyed it for some time with fear and surprise. However, he took it down and opened the sack, and was much pleased to see the beautiful feathers, one of which he placed on his head.

Starting off, it waved gracefully over him till he reached his party, when he threw down the head and sack, and told them how he had found it, and that the sack was full of paints and feathers. They all looked at the head and made sport of it. Numbers of the young men took the paint and painted themselves, and one of the party took the head by the hair and said -

'Look, you ugly thing, and see your paints on the faces of warriors.'

But the feathers were so beautiful, that numbers of them also placed them on their heads.

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