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The girl went after water again, and the man was there at the 

 creek, waiting. The girl was dressed up in her best clothes. She 

 went off with the man. 



They went a long way, and the girl gave out. Her moccasins 

 were worn out. She sat down to rest. Then the man said, "I am 

 not a man, I am a Buffalo." The girl began to cry, and said, "You 

 have made me ruin my father and mother. They will think that 

 I am dead." 



They started again. They stopped, and the man said, "You 

 -must stay right here until I come back." So the man told the girl 

 not to be afraid of him, and went over a hill. When he came 

 back, he was a Buffalo, and the girl was afraid of him. So he made 

 her ride between his horns. As he went on, he said, "My partner is 

 over here." When they came to his partner, they found him dead, 

 and decayed, and worms were in him. The Buffalo said, "My 

 partner is dead." So he turned himself into a man again. He 

 made a bow and arrows and went to shooting at the dead Buffalo. 

 He shot him once. The dead Buffalo moved. The next time the 

 Buffalo shot him he raised his head. The next time he shot him 

 he got up on his feet and shook the worms off from himself. 



The two Buffalo went off, carrying the girl between their horns. 

 When they were a long way off, they stopped, and the girl sat 

 down. The Buffalo said, "You must stay here. We are going off. 

 You must not be afraid." So they went off. When they came 

 back they licked the girl all over, and the girl gave birth to a little 

 one, which was a Buffalo. 



There was one Buffalo who was mean, and his name was "One- 

 Rib," and he would take from the other Buffalo what they had. 

 So he took the girl. He went off with her, and the other Buffalo 

 started after them. Every time they caught up with them, One-Rib 

 would make a wide ditch, so they could not get over. Then One- 

 Rib would turn back and tell the father to go around to the right 

 hand side, where he could get across. So One-Rib said, "He is 

 crazy to get across the place I dug. I will make two women, and 

 put them with the girl, and if he can tell his wife from the others 

 he may have her back." The girl told her young one to tell his 

 father that One-Rib was going to make two women to put with 

 her, and, if he could tell her from the other two, he might take her 

 back. She also told her child to tell his father that when he should 

 look at them she was to move her right ear. One-Rib made the two 

 women, and the Buffalo came to look at them. The girl moved her 



