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bury her." He brought one of the Buffalo and it began to dig the 

 grave. The Grasshopper said, "My grandmother said that she 

 wanted to be way under the ground." So the Buffalo dug deep, 

 until the Grasshopper killed him. He butchered the Buffalo and, 

 the old woman came to life again. 1 



19. — The Old Woman and the Orphan Boy. 



An orphan boy and his grandmother were living by themselves. 

 The boy said, "Grandmother, I am hungry for meat." The old 

 woman said, "You go where lots of Buffalo are and tell them I am 

 dead ; that I said I want two of the biggest ones to bury me." The 

 boy came to the herd and the Buffalo heard him crying. They said, 

 "There is somebody crying. Somebody must be dead." The boy 

 walked up in the herd, and said, "Grandmother is dead, and she 

 wants two Buffalo to bury her." One of the Buffalo said, "Little- 

 Tail, you must fix this boy something to eat." So Little-Tail defe- 

 cated and made of it meat ; another defecated and made tallow. The 

 boy ate. The leader said, "You go on, and you 'will come to an- 

 other herd. Two or three will go with you." 



The boy went on, and he came to another herd. One of the old 

 Buffalo said, "What do you want?" The boy said, "My grand- 

 mother is dead. She wants two fat Buffalo to bury her under 

 ground.'] The old Buffalo said, "You go around and pick out the 

 two you want. They will go with you." The boy went out and 

 picked out one big fat buffalo and went through the herd again 

 and picked out another. He started home with them. 



When the old woman heard them coming she made out that 

 she was dead. She was all broken up and scalp worms were in her. 

 They started to dig a grave. The boy said, "Dig it, for she said 

 she wanted to be deep under ground." They got down about ten 

 feet, and the old woman got up and killed them both. 



They butchered the buffalo and made some tallow. The boy 

 took the feet and made tracks back to the hill, so that when the 

 Buffalo should come to see about it he might say, "They started 

 home a long time ago." 



20. — The Rabbit and the Picture. 

 There were once some men digging a well. At evening, they 

 went home, and there came a Rabbit, to get a drink from the well. 

 The next day, the men came out to work on the well. When they 



1 See No. 19. 



