While he sang this, he had inside his hand the stick which the beaver had givenhim. This was his only weapon.

He ran to the bank, jumped in and dived, and came up in the middle of theriver, and started to swim across. The rest of the Blackfeet saw one oftheir number swimming across the river, and they said to each other: "Whois that? Why did not some one stop him?" While he was swimming across, theman who had been making the speech saw him and went down to meet him. Hesaid: "Who can this man be, swimming across the river? He is a stranger. Iwill go down and meet him, and kill him." As the boy was getting close tothe shore, the man waded out in the stream up to his waist, and raised hisknife to stab the swimmer. When Api-k[)u]nni got near him, he dived underthe water and came up close to the man, and thrust the beaver stick throughhis body, and the man fell down in the water and died. Api-k[)u]nni caughtthe body, and dived under the water with it, and came up on the other sidewhere he had left his friend. Then all the Blackfeet set up the war whoop,for they were glad, and they could hear a great crying in the camp. Thepeople there were sorry for the man who was killed.

People in those days never killed one another, and this was the first manever killed in war.

They dragged the man up on the bank, and Api-k[)u]nni exclaimed to his brother,"Cut off those long hairs on the head." The young man did as he wastold. He scalped him and counted _coup_ on him; and from that time forth,people, when they went to war, killed one another and scalped the deadenemy, as this poor young man had done. Two others of the main party cameto the place, and counted _coup_ on the dead body, making four whom hadcounted _coup_. From there, the whomle party turned about and went back tothe village whence they had come.

When they came in sight of the lodges, they sat down in a row facing thecamp. The man who had killed the enemy was sitting far in front of theothers. Behind him sat his friend, and close behind Wolf Tail, sat the two whohad counted _coup_ on the body. So these four were strung out in front ofthe others. The chief of the camp was told that some people were sitting ona hill near by, and when he had gone out and looked, he exclaimed: "There issome one sitting way in front. Let somebody go out and see about it." Ayoung man ran out to where he could see, and when he had looked, he ranback and exclaimed to the chief, "Why, that man in front is the poor young man."

The very aged chief looked around, and exclaimed: "Where is that youthful woman, my wife?Go and find her." They went to look for her, and found her out gatheringrosebuds, for while the youthful man whom she loved was away, she used to goout and gather rosebuds and dry them for him. When they found her, she hadher bosom full of them. When she came to the lodge, the chief exclaimed to her:"There is the man you love, who has come. Go and meet him." She made readyquickly and ran out and met him. He exclaimed: "Give her that hair of the deadman. Here is his knife. There is the coat he had on, when I killedhim. Take these things back to the camp, and tell the people who made funof you that this is what you promised them at the time of that dance."