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Bie 106 LAUGHING Boy gether. Blunt Nose was around all the time. People gathered together in groups of ten tw] twelve families, or more, like in the days whee, we were always at war. Then those men came. | ‘There were eight of them. They all had badges | on their shirts, like policemen, only not quite the § same. One of them was a fat man; we did not ses why they brought him. ; ‘They said they wanted four Navajos to be trackers. The Doer was to be head tracker. There were two other young men, and then thew] took me. They said they would pay me a doll} a day. That was a new idea to me, to be paid fcr] hunting Pah-Utes. I thought you just hunted] them. I ‘We tracked’them for three days without seeing? them. They tried to make us go at night, but w=j pretended not to be able to follow the trail. When The Doer told them that, they believed him. if was not an easy trail. Their horses were not shed. and they went a great deal over bald rock, thew turned and doubled, they dragged branches hind them. : ‘We did not get much to eat, we could not make a fire. Those Americans brought a brown, swees candy, and a little, dried-up black candy in boxes. | something sticky. These we ate; you could gc af long time on them. Then we had:some dried corn.