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Rh saw us. We tried unsuccessfully | to do something." Then they started. Now it was night. | They went along, and they arrived at the town of their enemies. | It was a bad place. There were rough bowlders around there. They could not | go down. The same one, Lamb Hat, said: || "Come here, the way I am going!" They went 155 that way, and started. | Lamb Hat said: "When I am going to step, | Dome this way also." Then they started, going down. They did not make any noise on the stones. | Even though there were small stones, they did not make any noise stepping on them. Then | they all went down to the place where there was good grass, and || they surrounded 160 the place where the enemy was encamped. Then | they watched for them. They stood there. Early in the morning | they threw up something. They saw it clearly, | and they said: "Now fight them!" Then | they blew whistles and fought the || enemy. |

Crazy Old Woman's son was the youngest one. He had not seen | any fighting. He thought: "I'll go with Chief | Not-sitting-down- Long. Whatever he does, I'll do." | Then Not-sitting-down-Long began to pursue them, and the || youth named Rattling Claws did not 170 turn his eyes from | the chief, Not-sitting-down-Long. Then he heard | that the town was being destroyed. They said: | "Ha, he! There is nobody like me [no man]. I hold Chief Harelip with my knife. | His clothing is fringed on one side." The two friends, || Not-sitting-down-Long 175 and Rattling Claws, went along. The friends were already | way in the town. They did not look at the tents. | They went to the middle. There was a tent there in the middle. | Not-sitting-down-Long jumped quickly to the head of the tent and stabbed him there. | He said: "Ha, he! There is nobody like me. I am the first to hold down with my knife || Chief Harelip." Then Rattling Claws | 180 also spoke, and said: "Ha, he! There is nobody like me. I am the first | to count coup for Chief Not-sitting-down-Long." Then | Not-sitting-down-Long did not pull out his spear, and | Rattling Claws also did not pull out his spear || from the place where he had stabbed 185 him. Then the noise stopped. |

Very early in the morning all the enemies had been killed. | The two friends stood there. The people went there. | They looked, and it was seen that | the friends Not-sitting-down-Long and Rattling Claws had killed the chief. Then it was seen || that it was Chief 190 Harelip. Then they started back. |

The one who had seen the people the day before | always thought: "I have seen people. | It is sure that they have turned into a lamb and a bird. | I shall not sleep to-night." Then he did so. || At night 195 when they slept, he hid himself. He went away | higher up. There