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gives a stone, which means a strong hfe, and in remembrance to the 

 giver of the medicine. When he was pitied by a bull, the way was 

 shown to him by which he might doctor with a tail, rattle, etc., with each 

 insect and animal according to their ways and qualities. Some of them 

 have bad ways, poor signs, so they are rarely used, unless the man 

 knows the intrinsic part of such animal. That is the true doctrine of the 

 animal to the medicine-man. 



Man- Above had a moral courage which no one else had, and that is 

 the reason why he was such a great doctor. After he had transferred 

 many ways of doctoring to men, he became sick. 



Man- Above would not go to the sick unless a pipe filled with to- 

 bacco were first given him, as an offering to the spirits, on and under 

 the ground. Every spring, when the sage is fully grown, this man 

 calls his followers for a general rehearsal of songs, to make more medi- 

 cine for every medicine-man, also to tell the new way if there is any, to 

 find out if the followers have followed his ways and' to heal the sick and 

 for other purposes. — D. 



Told by Ridge-Bear. 



124. — Skull acts as Food-getter. 



There was a tipi by the river, in which a man, wife and their 

 daughter were living. This daughter was handsome and charming. 

 She worked at quill work all the time, but went after water mornings, 

 noons and evenings for her parents. '"Well, daughter, I don't know how 

 we are to get our subsistence to live on; your mother has just cooked 

 the last supply, and I am sure we don't want to starve to death !" said 

 the father. The daughter sat by the wall of the tipi twisting the por- 

 cupine quills into tipi pendants. Somebody heard the remark of the 

 old man. 



Early one morning the daughter went after water and saw a fat 

 buffalo cow lying dead near the bank of the river. '-Father, when I 

 got to the river for this water," holding up the vessel, "I saw a fat 

 buffalo cow lying dead," she said. "Thanks ! We are saved from 

 starvation,'' said the father. So the father and mother went and skinned 

 the buffalo cow. They brought in the beef and hide and had a good 

 meal again. The next morning the daughter went for water again and 

 found another buffalo, this time a fat steer. When she returned to the 

 tipi she told her father about this dead buffalo. The father was 

 pleased. The buffalo lay a short distance from the first one, farther 

 away from the tipi. The father and mother went and skinned the buf- 

 falo and brought in the meat^and hide. The first beef which was se- 



