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You know, in the old days, it was not so very easy to get a girl when you wanted
to be married. Sometimes it was hard work for a young man and he had to stand
a great deal. Say I am a young man and I have seen a young girl who looks so
beautiful to me that I feel all sick when I think about her. I can not just go and
tell her about it and then get married if she is willing. I have to be a very sneaky
fellow to talk to her at all, and after I have managed to talk to her, that is only the
beginning.
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Probably for a long time I have been feeling sick about a certain girl because I
love her so much, but she will not even look at me, and her parents keep a good
watch over her. But I keep feeling worse and worse all the time; so maybe I
sneak up to her tepee in the dark and wait until she comes out. Maybe I just wait
there all night and don’t get any sleep at all and she does not come out. Then I
feel sicker than ever about her.
Maybe I hide in the brush by a spring where she sometimes goes to get water,
and when she comes by, if nobody is looking, then I jump out and hold her and
just make her listen to me. If she likes me too, I can tell that from the way she
acts, for she is very bashful and maybe will not say a word or even look at me
the first time. So I let her go, and then maybe I sneak around until I can see her
father alone, and I tell him how many horses I can give him for his beautiful girl,
and by now I am feeling so sick that maybe I would give him all the horses in
the world if I had them.
Well, this young man I am telling about was called High Horse, and there was
a girl in the village who looked so beautiful to him that he was just sick all over
from thinking about her so much and he was getting sicker all the time. The girl
was very shy, and her parents thought a great deal of her because they were not
young any more and this was the only child they had. So they watched her all
day long, and they fixed it so that she would be safe at night too when they were
asleep. They thought so much of her that they had made a rawhide bed for her to
sleep in, and after they knew that High Horse was sneaking around after her,
they took rawhide thongs and tied the girl in bed at night so that nobody could