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to persuade her to wait a while longer, until the last buffalo had gone 

 by. She waited until but a few more buffalo had to pass, when she 

 could wait no longer. So her husband folded her robe and told her to 

 urinate in that ; but it leaked through and a drop of her urine fell upon 

 the head of the last buffalo, which was an old bull. He looked up and 

 saw that Bones-Together's wife was in the tree with her first husband. 



The old bull signaled the other buffalo to return, which they did, 

 and all joined in a mighty effort to butt the tree down. When Bones- 

 Together would hit the tree the slabs would come off from it. The 

 attack on the tree continued all that, day and for three days more, and 

 toward the evening of the fourth day the tree began to quiver and 

 shake when Bones-Together hit it. 



The man and wife in the tree began to pray to all animals to help 

 them escape. All were afraid to help them except the night hawk, who 

 came and told them secretly to shoot Bones-Together in the neck 

 when he came toward the tree ; and shoot under his tail when he was 

 leaving the tree. The man did as he was directed, and caused the 

 buffalo to scatter in all directions (and that is the reason why buffalo 

 are all around). 



The man and his wife came down and went home and lived happily 

 afterwards. 



19. — Red-Woman and the Deeds of Two Boys. 



Once upon a time there lived a couple, the woman being pregnant. 

 The man went hunting one day, and in his absence a certain wicked 

 woman named Red- Woman came to the tipi and killed his wife and 

 cut her open and found boy twins. She threw one behind the tipi 

 curtain, and the other she threw into a spring. She then put a stick 

 inside of the woman and stuck one end in the ground, to give her the 

 appearance of a live person, and burned her upper lip, giving her the 

 appearance as though laughing. 



When her husband came home, tired from carrying the deer, he had 

 killed, he saw his wife standing near the door of the tipi, looking as 

 though she were laughing at him, and he said : "I am tired and hun- 

 gry, why do you laugh at me?" and pushed her. As she fell back- 

 wards, her stomach opened, and he caught hold of her and discovered 

 she was dead. He knew at once that Red- Woman had killed his wife. 



W r hile the man was eating supper alone one night, a voice said, 

 "Father, give me some of your supper." As no one was in sight, he 

 resumed eating and again the voice asked for supper. The man said, 

 "Whoever you are, you may come and eat with me, for I am poor and 



