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off and the hide into the thick timber and began to sHce the meat. 

 She had some good fat meat for her first dinner, and had another good 

 supper. After hanging up the meat properly, she went back to her 

 tipi, and on the way gathered some tomatoes for herself and husband. 

 It was just a small bundle, and she gave it to her husband. "It's 

 very hard work to find the weed, but I do find it, although it does not 

 bear many tomatoes. But, husband, you ought to be thankful for what 

 I do bring home for you," said the wife. 



The next morning the wife went out for more tomatoes. Instead 

 of gcing to pick them, she w^ent directly to the place where she had 

 cached the meat and the bones. That day she was chopping the bones 

 to make tallow and lard. She ate good meals that day. Before sunset 

 she set out and began picking more tomatoes for herself and husband. 

 On the way she sat down by the water at a buffalo wallow and washed 

 her hands, using the dirt for soap to kill the smell of the meat. 



When she lay down on the bed with her husband for the night's 

 rest, he smelled the odor of fresh meat and tallow on her dress and 

 mouth. "Say, wife, why is it that you get home so late and also bear 

 the smell of cooked meat? Your whole body smells of animal food," 

 said the husband. They both spent the night, the wife getting strength 

 all the time and the husband becoming discouraged. "Well, husband, 

 when I am out for berries and tomatoes I get very sweaty, and that is 

 what makes me have such a strange odor," said the wife. 



The next morning she went to pick tomatoes, and Blind-Man 

 stayed at home. The wife went directly to the place again where she 

 had her meat Sometimes during the day the blind man would go 

 out and cry from being alone and hungry, and wondered why she stayed 

 so long, for during the whole day she was at the place, eating and rest- 

 ing, and thought nothing of her husband. 



Before sunset she left her retreat and went home. On the way 

 she picked some tomatoes, just a few to satisfy her husband that night. 

 "Well, wife, I was very lonesome to-day and got very hungry. But 

 do tell me why you stay so long and smell so strange. The smell is 

 like that of meat and tallow," said he. "Didn't I tell you the reason 

 once?" said the wife, roughly. Blind-Man kept silent, but kept on 

 wondering about his wife's actions. 



In the morning, before the wife woke up, the husband went to 

 urinate, and then went back inside the tipi. He woke his wife and she 

 got up without any delay. After a scanty meal with her husband, she 

 started out, telling him that she was going out to pick some more to- 

 matoes. After she had been gone for some time, an owl lighted on the 



