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saw, — bear, deer, elk, buffalo, etc., — until all animals were afraid of 

 him. 



To guard against being killed while he slept, he placed his arrows in 

 an upright position around his body, so that if anything should come to 

 harm him the arrows would drop on his face and awaken him. One 

 day he was sleeping and a snake crawled under the earth and came up 

 right near his rectum, and the arrows all hit him at once, but it was too 

 late ; for the snake had crawled up in his body through his rectum. The 

 boy tore his legs from his body in order to catch the snake, but the 

 snake had gone up in the boy's head. 



All the flesh fell from the boy's body, and his father, the Creator 

 (or Sun) caused a strong wind to blow, which rolled the skull with 

 the snake in it into a gulley filled with water, causing the skull to fill 

 up with water, and the snake was afraid to come out and died in the 

 skull and the boy never regained his former shape. 



18. — Bones-Together. 



Once upon a time people were without meat, and were in great 

 need of it. At the spring where they got their drinking water was a 

 buffalo skull on which they stepped to get the water. 



One day the chief's daughter came to get some water, and stepping 

 on the skull she said, "If my father and his people will get meat soon, 

 I will marry you." This daughter was beautiful and all the men were 

 after her. Soon after this they had a big buffalo hunt, and procured 

 all the meat that was needed for many days. 



The evening of the day of the hunt, the chief's daughter went to 

 the spring after water, and the buffalo skull was gone, and on the other 

 side of the spring was a young man wearing a buffalo robe with the 

 hair outwards. He spoke to her, repeating what she said to the skull 

 at the spring, saying, "You people have plenty of meat now, for I was 

 the cause of the plenteousness of the buffalo."' The chief's daughter 

 said she would marry him, and asked him to wait until she went home 

 to put the water in the tipi and bring her sewing articles. When she 

 returned to the spring, the young man was a buffalo bull, and he placed 

 her on his shoulders (the name of the bull was Bones-Together, be- 

 cause he came together after being dead a long time) and carried her 

 away and married her. 



The chief's daughter had been previously married, and her hus- 

 band missed her and hunted all over for her, but looked in vain 

 until one day he said he would find her. He made two quivers of 

 arrows and with these and his moccasins packed on his back he trav- 



