himself to try and get
some more. The tobacco country was far in the south, with high
mountains all around it, and the passes were guarded, so that it was
very bard to get into it. but the young man was a conjurer and was not
afraid. He traveled southward until he came to the mountains on the
border of the tobacco country. Then he opened his medicine bag and
took out a hummingbird skin and put it over himself like a dress.
Now he was a hummingbird and flew over the mountains to the tobacco
field and pulled some of the leaves and seed and put them into his
medicine bag. He was so small and swift that the guards, whoever
they were, did not see him, and when he had taken as much as he could
carryhe tlew back over the mountains in the same way. Then he took
off the hummingbird skin and put it into his medicine bag. and was a
man again. He started home, and on his way came to a tree that had
a hole in the trunk, like a door, near the first branches, and a very
pretty woman was looking out from it. Hestoppedand tried toclimb
the tree, but although he was a good climber he found that he always
slipped back. He put on a pair of medicine moccasins from his pouch,
and then he could climb the tree, but when he reached the first branches
he looked up and the hole was still as far away as before. He climbed
higher and higher, but every time he looked up the hole seemed to be
farther