“My son, you keep a careless watch.  You do not act as a man ought to do.  Instead of sitting here looking over the prairie in all directions to see if enemies are approaching, or if there are any signs of strange people being near, you lie here and sleep.  I crept up to you and fired my gun, to see what you would do.  You did not stop to see where the noise came from, nor did you look about to see if enemies were here.  You thought only of saving your body, and started to run away.  This is not good.  A warrior does not act like this; he is always watching all about him, to see what is going to happen, and if he is attacked suddenly, he tries to fight, or, if he cannot fight, he thinks more of giving warning to the people than he does of saving himself.”

When my uncle spoke to me like this he made me feel bad, for of all people he was the one whom I most wished to please, and with him I wished to stand well.  I considered a little before I said to him:  “I was trying to run to my horse, and if I had got him I think I should have tried to reach the camp, and perhaps I should have tried to drive in some of the horses; but I was badly frightened, for I had been asleep and did not know what had happened.”

“I think you speak truly,” said my uncle, “but you should not have gone to sleep when you were sent out here to watch the horses.  Boys who go to sleep when they ought to be looking over the country, and watching their horses, or men who get tired and go to sleep when they are on the warpath, never do much.  I should like to have you always alert and watchful.”

I made up my mind that I would hold fast to the words which my uncle spoke to me, and after this would not sleep when I was on herd.

It was not long after this that my uncle again told me to get my arrows, and come and hunt with him.  He told me also to take my robe with me, and that we would go far up the river and be gone one night.  I was glad to go, and we started.

All through the day we traveled up stream, going in low places, and traveling cautiously; for, although we were close to the camp, still my uncle told me no one could be sure that enemies might not be about, and that we might not be attacked at any time; so we went carefully.  If we had to cross a hill, we crept up to the top of it, and lifted our heads up little by little, and looked over all the country, to see whether people were in sight; or game; or to see what the animals might be doing.

Once, when we stopped to rest, my uncle said to me:  “Little son, this is one of the things you must learn; as you travel over the country, always go carefully, for you do not know that behind the next hill there may not be some enemy watching, looking over the country to see if someone may not be about.  Therefore, it is well for you always to keep out of sight as much as you can.  If you have to go to the top of the hill, because you wish to see the country, creep carefully