BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 133 across this on the Upper Missouri in 1897. It was the most brilhant affair I ever saw on the Plains, for on the bright red ground of the canvas were his totems and medicine, in yellow, blue, green, and black. The day I sketched it a company of United States soldiers under orders had forcibly taken away his two children to send them to school, according to law " ; so Gray-Wolf was going off at once, without pitching his tent. His little daughter, " The Fawn," looked at me with fear, thinking I was coming to drag her off to school. I coaxed her, then gave her a quarter. She smiled, because she knew it would buy sweet- meats. Then I said : Little Fawn, run and tell your father that I am his friend, and I want to see his great red teepee."
- ' The Fawn " came back and said, My father hates you."
" Tell your mother that I will pay her if she will put up the teepee." " The Fawn " went to her mother, and, improving my offer, told her that that white man will give much money to see the red teepee up." The squaw looked out. I held up a dollar and got only a sour look, but another squaw appeared. After some haggling they agreed to put up the teepee for $3.00. The poles were already standing. They unrolled the great cloth and deftly put it up in less than 20 minutes, but did not try to put down the anchor rope, as the ground was too hard to drive a stake into. My sketch was half finished when the elder woman called the younger and pointed westward. They chattered together a mo- ment and then proceeded to take down the teepee. I objected. They pointed angrily toward-the west and went on. I protested that I had paid for the right to make the sketch ; but in spite of me the younger squaw scrambled like a monkey up the front pole, drew the lacing-pins, and the teepee was down and rolled up in ten minutes. I could not understand the pointing to the Avest, but five minutes after the teepee was down a dark spot appeared; this became a cloud and in a short time we were in the midst of a wind-storm that threw down all teepees that were without the anchor rope, and certainly the red teepee would have been one of those to suffer but for the sight and foresight of the old Indian woman.
