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with the meat. After the butchering^ was over, the woman finishing her 

 work on the meat, she went to work and got buffalo hides, scraped and 

 tanned them and also got poles made for the tipi, with plenty of every- 

 thing. Their pony was hog fat and wild, but stayed close to their camp- 

 ing place. 



The man was entirely a different person in heart and mind, and at 

 the same time very industrious. He would be gone every day, looking 

 for something. One day the wife took the good bones of the buffalo 

 and pounded them and placed them in a kettle to boil for tallow. Then 

 she roasted the best meat (the tenderloin, perhaps) and got it very 

 finely beaten, mixing thoroughly the meat and the tallow, and nice 

 sweet pemmican was m^de. It was about the size of the buffalo intes- 

 tine. She got the lining of the intestine and put this big pemmican in it, 

 wrapping it very tight with another lining, and called her husband. 

 "Now, my dear husband, here is the pemmican," said the wife. ''Good ! 

 That is the right thing to do, my wife, I shall take it and pack it to- 

 morrow," said he. The night came on, and the family retired. 



After breakfast, next morning, this man packed this bundle of 

 pemmican on his back and started off in search of the camp. He trav- 

 eled day after day, until he reached the big camp-circle. When he met 

 a person outside of the camp ground he asked for the chief's tipi. It 

 was pointed out to him. So he went to it and entered with his bundle. 

 "I have brought this bundle of pemmican for all of you to eat," he 

 said, seating himself. "Well, I am glad to see you again. Thank you 

 very much. Wife, tell the old man to cry out for the people to come 

 and eat this pemmican, brought in by the old man who was left behind 

 with one pony, — the man was deserted entirely, because he was very 

 poor," said the chief. So the old man went out and cried with a loud 

 voice, saying: "Listen, all you people in the camp. Be it known unto 

 you that the man and wife and their several children who were left in 

 the wilderness, have arrived at the chief's lodge, and brought with them 

 a big bundle of pemmican as his present." The people were starving 

 for beef and responded quickly. They came in and took off any amount 

 they wanted and ate it with their children. As the people took cakes 

 of it, it retained its original size. The people were all fed and still 

 there was plenty of it left to feed some more. 



This man then said to the people that he had to return home, but 

 he v/anted the whole camp to follow him. "Yonder, at the foot of those 

 high mountains, you will find my tipi, along the creek bottom," said 

 he. So he started off. The old man cried out again, saying: "The 

 man who was left behind says that all shall break camp and follow his 



