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their bows and arrows. The boys began to skin the buffalo calf 

 with their bone knives. The wonderful boy told the other boys to 

 skin it very carefully, for he wanted the skin for his robe. He told 

 them to skin the whole head, and to leave the hoofs on. While they 

 were skinning the calf they saw a man coming toward them, driving 

 a dog team. The man had come to the killing-ground to gather what 

 bones had been left. When the man saw the boys he went to them. 

 This man was Young- Wolf, the head chief of the tribe. He said to 

 the boys, "My children have favored me at last. I shall take charge 

 of this whole buffalo. You boys can go off, for I have come. You 

 cannot take this buffalo." All the boys stopped skinning except 

 the wonderful boy, who told the chief that he wanted only the hide 

 for his robe, and that the boys were dressing it under his directions. 

 The chief pushed the wonderful boy aside, but the boy returned 

 and began skinning again. The chief jerked the boy away, and 

 threw him down. The boy returned and began skinning again, and 

 pretended that he was going to skin one of the hind legs, but he cut 

 the leg off at the knee instead, and left the hoof on. While the chief 

 was skinning the calf the boy struck him on the back of the head 

 with the buffalo leg, and instantly killed him. The chief fell to the 

 ground dead. The boys ran to their camp and told the people what 

 the wonderful boy had done, and it caused great excitement. All 

 the warriors assembled and resolved to kill the wonderful boy. They 

 went out and found the body of their chief, but the wonderful boy 

 had already returned to the camp with the other boys, and he was 

 in his grandmother's lodge. The old woman was cooking food for 

 him in an earthen pot. Suddenly the old woman's tipi was raised 

 completely by the warriors, who had returned from their hunt for 

 the wonderful boy. The wonderful boy kicked over the cooking 

 pot, and its contents went into the fire, and as the smoke rose the 

 boy, by mysterious means, went up with it, and the warriors saw 

 the old woman sitting the're alone. As they looked around they saw 

 the boy walking off toward the east at a distance of about a quarter 

 of a mile from them. The warriors pursued him, but could not 

 approach nearer to him, so they gave up the chase. Four times 

 they chased him without avail. Early one morning, while one of 

 the young men was out hunting near their camp, he saw the won- 

 derful boy down in a ravine, warming himself by a fire he had built. 

 The young man returned to the camp at once, and notified the war- 

 riors, who immediately went out and surrounded the ravine. They 

 saw the fire, but the boy had turned into a wolf, and jumped over 

 a high bluff and ran away, howling at the crowd. They began to be 



