A very young girl was not permitted to go to the watchers’ stage unless an old woman went along to take care of her. In olden days, mothers watched their daughters very carefully.
Watchers’ Songs
Most of the songs that were sung on the watchers’ stage were love songs, but not all.
One that little girls were fond of singing—girls that is of about twelve years of age—was as follows:
You bad boys, you are all alike!
Your bow is like a bent basket hoop;
You poor boys, you have to run on the prairie barefoot;
Your arrows are fit for nothing but to shoot up into the sky!
This song was sung for the benefit of the boys who came to the near-by woods to hunt birds.