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dren back to back and fastening their legs. They were left to starve. 

 Then a dog, so old that it could not bite, came and sucked and chewed 

 the rawhide thongs with which the children were tied, until they were 

 soft; then it said to them: "Stretch yourselves," and the children 

 struggled until the wet hide parted and they became free. Looking 

 about them, they at last found small pieces of meat which the people 

 had left. They made a hut of willows and grass and lived there. 

 Once, when the boy was alone, a voice spoke to him. He was unable 

 to see any one. It said to him : "Do not be discouraged ; you will be 

 as well able to provide for yourselves as are the other people. Now 

 go to that hill." The boy went to the hill and saw there a large hole, 

 about which were many buffalo tracks. He went home and sat down 

 \vith his eyes shut. When his sister came in, she asked him : "What 

 is it ?" He said to her : "Look toward that hill where the whitish 

 buffalo grass is." She looked and saw a black spot. It came nearer 

 and she saw that it was a string of buffalo. She told her brother. 

 When the buffalo we're near, the boy said : "In which direction are 

 they?" She told him, and having turned his face toward them, he 

 opened his eyes. All the buffalo fell down dead. Then the girl went 

 out and butchered them. A voice spoke to her and told her : "Sit down 

 on the meat." She sat down on the buffalo, and when she arose the 

 meat was all cut up, so that she had nothing to do but to hang it up to 

 dry. Then the voice told her again : "Sit down on the piled skins." 

 She did this and the skins were all dressed. Now the children con- 

 tinued to live in this way, and had a large tent and many blankets, and 

 more meat than they could use. The people who had abandoned them 

 were starving. Then some young men found the children, who were 

 now grown up, and recognized them, and saw the abundance they had. 

 They reported it to the people, and the people all moved to them. Then 

 their mother and father also came and embraced them, saying: "Is 

 this my daughter?" But the girl said: "I never had any mother." 

 And when the woman embraced the young man and called him her 

 son, he also said: "I never had a mother."* — K. 



129. — The Young Man and his Father-in-law.' 



There was a tent in which were a man and his wife and his 

 brother. They were alone hunting. Then a girl baby was born to 

 them. She grew up to be a young woman and lived in a separate tent. 



' According also to a version told by informant I, the children were released by a dog, not a 

 ■wolf. The dog turned to a horse. 

 » Informant H. 



