a forest he
killed several rabbits. After sunset he was in the midst of the
forest. He had to spend the night there, so he made a fire.

He thought this: "Should I meet any danger by and by, I will shoot. I
am a man who ought not to regard anything."

He cooked a rabbit, so he was no longer hungry. Just then he heard
many voices. They were talking about their own affairs. But the man
could see no one.

So he thought: "It seems now that at last I have encountered ghosts."

Then he went and lay under a fallen tree, which was a great distance
from the fire. They came around him and whistled, "_Hyu! hyu! hyu!_"

"He has gone yonder," said one of the ghosts. Then they came and stood
around the man, just as people do when they hunt rabbits. The man lay
flat beneath the fallen tree, and one ghost came and climbed on the
trunk of that tree. Suddenly the ghost gave the cry that a man does
when he hits an enemy, "_A-he!_" Then the ghost kicked the man in the
back.

Before the ghost could get away, very suddenly the man shot at him and
wounded him in the legs. So the ghost cried as men do in pain, "_Au!
au! au!_" At last he went off, crying as women do, "_Yun! yun! yun!
yun!_"

The other ghosts said to him, "Where did he shoot?"

The wounded ghost said, "He shot me through the head and I have come
apart." Then the other ghosts were wailing on the hillside.

The man decided he would go to the place where the ghosts were
wailing. So when day came, he went there. He found some graves. Into
one of them a wolf had dug, so that the bones could be seen; and there
was a wound in the skull.

[Illustration: BLACK COYOTE

Arapahoe chief, and a leader in the ghost-dance.

_Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution_]

[Illustration: ORNAMENTATION ON THE REVERSE OF AN ARAPAHOE
"GHOST-DANCE" SHIRT

_Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution_]

THE INDIAN WHO WRESTLED WITH A GHOST

_Teton_

A young man went alone on the warpath. At length he reached a wood.
One day, as he was going along, he heard a voice. He said, "I shall
have company." As he was approaching a forest, he heard some one
halloo. Behold, it was an owl.

By and by he drew near another wood, and as night was coming on he lay
down to rest. At the edge of the trees he lay down in the open air. At
midnight he was aroused by the voice of a woman. She was wailing, "My
son! my son!" Still he remained where he was, and put more wood on the
fire. He lay