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would put him on her back, but he would not stop crying. His 

 father said, "Father-in-law, I do not like that, because they made 

 him cry. I am going to take him with me." So the man turned him- 

 self back into a Buffalo and started off with his little one. So every 

 Buffalo that was in the camp turned into buffalo and went off with 

 them. 1 



24. — The Girl and the Mountain-Lion. 



Once a girl named Mitsihi was- going to leave her people, and she 

 had a crier to call for certain women to come. When they came, she 

 told them that her mother had whipped her ; that she was going to leave 

 them ; and that this was what she wanted to tell them. One of the 

 women said, "Why, Mitsihi, you shall not go by yourself, I am going 

 along with you. I will go too." Another said, "Mitsihi, you are the 

 only one that I like, and I hate to see you go ; so I will go along, too." 

 At last, the crier said, "Well, I, too, am going with you girls." 



They all started off, and when they stopped over night, one of the 

 women was missing. So Mitsihi said, "We all said that we were not 

 to turn back, and now one of us has gone back already." Then they 

 went on, and they stopped for the night again, and in the morning, 

 Mitsihi said, "Another one has turned back." They went on again and 

 stopped for the night. Again there was one missing in the morning. 

 Mitsihi said the same words again. So they started again and camped 

 for the night, and in the morning, the crier was missing. Mitsihi said, 

 "We all promised not to turn back, but there are only two- of us left." 

 They both began crying. So they went on again, and soon the other 

 woman was missing. So Mitsihi was alone, but she started on, crying. 



While she was going along, a bird in a tree said, "Mitsihi, I want 

 to tell you something." Mitsihi said, "What do you want to tell me? 

 Go ahead, and say what it is." And the bird said, "You have missed 

 five of your friends, and I will tell you what has become of them : A 

 Mountain-Lion has eaten them. You go and get in that hole in that 

 big rock, and put a big rock in front of the hole, and the Mountain- 

 Lion will come to the door at midnight." So Mitsihi did as she was 

 told. At midnight, the Mountain-Lion came to the door, and said, 

 "Mitsihi, open this door for me." Mitsihi said, "Come closer to the 

 door." So the Mountain-Lion came closer, and Mitsihi pushed the 

 rock over on him and killed him, and the Mountain-Lion had the 

 women's bodies in him. 



Mitsihi then went on crying, and she came to a girl baby, but she 



1 Compare Dorsey and Kroeber, Traditions of the Arapaho, No. 12. 



