FOOTNOTES:
[60] Told by Cut-Arm.
60. HOW THE SCALPED-MAN LOST HIS WIFE.[61]
One time the women went into the timber to gather some grapes. One of the girls went far. She saw some grapes away up in a tree, so she climbed the tree to get them. While she was up there, a Scalped-Man found her. The woman cried for help, but the other women had already gone home. The woman came down from the tree and went with the Scalped-Man to his den. But before getting to the den, they had to cross a creek. Before they crossed the creek, the girl said, “Now, if you will just go in and swim and wash your head, then I will be your wife and will not be afraid of you.” The girl made the Scalped-Man dive many times, and while he was diving she ran away and came to a grapevine, and crawled under it.
When the Scalped-Man came out from the water the girl was missing. He followed her tracks to the grapevine, and he said, “You are to come out from there!” But the girl said nothing. After a while he went on. He kept going through the timber back and forth, until at last he gave up. The woman got out from the place, and ran home. She told her people about the Scalped-Man.