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died until he came to a big eagle,' whom he asked to help him find 

 his wife. The eagle said : "I can tell you Where your wife is, but I 

 can't help you, for Bones-Together has your wife and he is all power- 

 ful." The husband begged all the animals to help him find his wife, 

 but all excepting the mole were afraid of Bones-Together. 



The moles agreed to help him, because he was a poor man. They 

 carried him under ground to near where the bull was standing on a 

 high hill, with his wife sitting under the bull, sewing. One of the 

 moles said, ''You wait here; I want to go and scent a bit.'' He poked 

 his nose up above the ground, and as he did so, the guards (cranes) of 

 the buffalo made a noise of warning. Bones-Together lifted his tail 

 and looked around for the cause of the danger, but the mole had es- 

 caped under ground. 



The mole said to the husband, "When the sun is overhead Bones- 

 Together goes down to the lake for water and places the bucket on his 

 horns, and then is our only chance of getting your wife." At noon, 

 Bones-Together started for the water with the bucket on his horn. 

 Then the chief of the moles said, "Now is our chance to get your wife." 

 The man sprang out of the hole and grabbed his wife and went back in 

 the hole with her and under the ground, until he came to a big river. 



The little moles were played out, and said, "We can't go any further, 

 you will have to find your way home alone; for we know Bones-To- 

 gether is going to kill us." The man and wife, with their belongings, 

 got out in the river in a boat made of willows, and went down the 

 stream. 



When Bones-Together returned from the lake with the water, his 

 wife was gone. He tracked her to the hole in the ground where she 

 had escaped, and put his horn in the hole and ripped up the ground 

 all along. When he # came to the river, he lost the track and turned 

 around and made a loud call upon the west, the north, the east, and the 

 south, saying, "Bones-Together's wife was stolen from him and he 

 wants your assistance to get her back." 



The man pushed the boat down the river until he was tired, and he 

 and his wife landed near a big tree, the largest tree they had ever seen, 

 and at the top of it was a bald-head eagle's nest. They thought it would 

 be safer up there in the nest than down on the ground. So up they 

 climbed to the eagle's nest and got in it and stayed there. 



From all points, east, south, west, and north, the buffalo came in 

 response to Bones-Together's appeal. Bones-Together led them down 

 the stream. Early in the morning they began passing under the tree. 

 The wife wanted very much to urinate, but her husband endeavored 



