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104 LavgHING Boy I A AR A A A A A AA A A A A AAA AAA AA AA AA AA Arner Oljeto, to get back. When he went past the trad- | ing post, he shot into it. He did not hurt any one, { but he spoiled some tin cans and broke some | windows. Then, on his way home, he crossed te | bridge over T’o Atsisi Creek. It is a big wooder | bridge that you can ride a horse over; Washindaz : had it built. They sent two Americans to shew | how it should be built. ; ‘Well, he came by this bridge. He was angrr. | so he burnt it, that man. And he got some sheen. | and went home. ‘Then the trader wrote another paper, a strocg one, and sent it to American Chief. Meantir= | The Doer was getting up a war- -party. The Peopis] were angry; they wanted to kill them, all thos Pah-Utes. So American Chief wrote a paper sas- | ing that he was getting up a war-party of Amer] cans who would do the fighting. He said to have good horses ready for them, and that the N avajos| must not start fighting or there would be soldiers. That was what he said. ! ‘He tried to talk to Dokoslid over the talking! wires, to get the war-party, but a man down bri Besh Nanaazh had cut some of the wires to mend | his wagon, so he had to wait a day to fix them Meantime he sent a rider with this paper. ‘The rider came by Gomulli To trading posz. His horse was lame and he was tired. I was thers

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