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102 LAucHING Boy went on the war-path for them. I went on the war-path that time.’ : He felt proud of the part he had played, a wanted to tell her about it. 1 ‘That was three years ago; I was just about faE{ grown. Blunt Nose, he made the trouble, thx! one. He was chief of a band of them; he lived um beyond Naesjé Cafion, near Tsé Nanaazh. Tha is wild country, almost in the mountains. He wa | bad. i ‘He used to kill Mormon cattle all the time. ag cow, and a cow, and a cow, here and there. be! needed to keep no sheep. He did the way bei pleased. He wore two pistols, and had a gun om} his saddle, they say. He would ride down the] middle of the trail, and not turn out for any one. ‘One time he heard the Mormons had sent far soldiers, so he left their country alone. Then he sat quiet for a while, but his people got hungre. A Pah-Ute will eat almost anything, but them is very little up there. That is why the Navaj= leave them alone; there is nothing in that counts but a few Pah-Utes and a few antelopes. Yoa cannot make anything out of the skins of eithez, so we let them alone. ‘Well, now Blunt Nose decided to try mutton] He came down by Jahai Spring where Hung Man lived. He had all his braves with him. Thew