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Rh started. The fast runner thought | he would bring home meat early. He went along and saw | a bighorn sheep. He followed it the whole day, but he could not catch it. || Battling Claws went with one of his 245 elder brothers. He went along. | His elder brother thought: "How is Rattling Claws going to look? | Let me deceive him." Then he said to him: | "Grizzly Bear is following us, Rattling Claws." He ran away quickly. | Then his elder brother laughed at him. They went on. || Now, the elder brother saw that a grizzly bear was following 250 them. | He said to his younger brother: "A grizzly bear is following us." | The elder one ran away. Rattling Claws | thought: "He is deceiving me." And he did not mind him. | Then the grizzly bear took him and killed him. The elder brother || rolled 255 down to the water. |

At night they came home. They told: "Rattling Claws | has been bitten by a grizzly bear." It was not long before they spoke, | and said: "Crazy Old Woman's son fell down." After some time, | late at night, Chief Crazy Old Woman went out, || and said: "What has 260 happened? You must have done something when you were out fighting; | therefore the misfortune happened. That is the reason." Then | he went back into his tent. They went in, and he was told: | "It is this way: Chief Not-sitting-down-Long held with his spear | Chief Harelip and counted coup. || When they started back, they 265 always said: 'Not-sitting-down-Long | held down with his spear the chief.' Then, when they arrived at | Low Hill, they said: 'Rattling Claws held down with his spear | Chief Harelip. Not-sitting-down-Long counted coup for | Rattling Claws.' Then (Not-sitting-down-Long) spoke there, and said: | 'The grizzly bear || will never be taken 270 away from him. | Now, I have told it. |

Now I'll tell about Pine Cone. |

There was a party traveling. They were encamped at Timbered Hollow. | Two friends went hunting to a place named Bottle. | The friends went along and shot a mountain goat. || There were rocks in 5 the center of the precipice. They made a fire to roast the game. | One of the friends was called Lamb Hat, | the other one was called Wolverene Hat. The one was eating | the brisket. They were sitting there eating. They said to each other: "O friend! | what would you do?" They knew that the place that they had passed was bad. The || only good place was narrow. Therefore they said so to each 10 other. | They said to each other: "What would you do if we should be attacked?" | Lamb Hat said: "O friend! I should work my