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Rh small. ǁ The old woman thought : "Now my grandson may leave me, | because Eagle Chief was not without high rank. | Maybe he did not do it." |

In the evening he went to get water, and again he saw the girl. | He said to her: "To-morrow at noon I shall come." The girl, knew | that he had shot the golden eagle. ǁ It was he who had given her pemmican. Then she started again. | On the following day he said to his grandmother: "I shall give you | the golden eagle that I brought yesterday. This is what I won | by playing. I won a woman. I shall go there." | The old woman said: "Whose daughter is she?" The youth said : ǁ "She is Golden Eagle's daughter." The old woman said: | "If he were not chief, I should not give you up." | The old woman cried. Her grandson said to her: "Don't | cry! I shall not leave you." The old woman said: | "Do you want to carry meat along?" The boy said: ǁ "To-morrow there will be much meat in that town. | I shall make it." The old woman said: "It is well. | Your wife will come for meat. The eagle will eat | it." |

In the evening the boy started. ǁ He went behind the tents. He made himself look the way he used to be | when he was with his mother. His clothing was fringed. | He had a shield and he had a tomahawk. | He had a little hammer and he had a war bonnet, and | on his head was a sparrow hawk. His saliva was ǁ shells. He had everything that he used to have | when he was with his mother. He started | for the town, and he was a large youth. | When he came out of the prairie, he shouted, and the people in the town heard it. | They said: "Well, Tree Chief arrives." ǁ They looked at him, and they saw him coming. Then | they went out. He arrived. He was told: "There is the | chief's tent." On the day before, | when he shot the eagle, he was not recognized. Only the girl and | Golden Eagle knew that he was the one who had ǁ shot the golden eagle on the previous day. Then the girl | shook his bed. She prepared the seat | where her husband was to sit. Then he went there. He entered. | His place was prepared. He sat down. | The girl had prepared the place for Sparrow Hawk to sit down. ǁ Coyote was sitting there. Then there were two | friends who had each a sparrow hawk. After some time he spat, | and his saliva turned into shells. | The Sparrow Hawk screeched, flew down, and ate | the shells. Then Coyote was angry. He was ashamed. ǁ