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the wife. Although disgusted at her sister, Crow-Woman kept making 

 remarks and tried to wait on her brother-in-law every morning and 

 during the daytime, but the younger sister kept her away. "You may 

 tell your father to get the people to gather buffalo chips and to have a 

 corral made, with a gate, and at the gate to have the chips placed one 

 after the other, on edge, the last one being a very thin one, from a 

 scabby bull," said Found-in-Grass. After he viewed the corral and 

 viewed the last chip, he said to it, ''When I come around after a while, 

 I shall shoot you dead, then the rest will get up alive and will be slaugh- 

 tered by the people." 



The people were busy skinning the beef, and Found-in-Grass was 

 at his beef, which he had killed right behind the herd, and it was for the 

 father-in-law. Found-in-Grass was skinning the beef he had killed, 

 when Crow -Woman stepped up and offered to help carry the beef to the 

 camp, but the sister objected, telling her to keep away, but Crow- Woman 

 hung around. Found-in-Grass was putting blcod from the beef into 

 the intestine bag for his father-in-law, and about to carry it home with 

 his young wife, when Crow- Woman came up to him and said that she 

 would carry it home. "No, sister-in-law, you might ruin your robe, I 

 will carry it myself," said the boy, Found-in-Grass. "You go to your 

 own husband. Crow, he is out still gathering eyes 61 buffalo," said 

 the younger sister. But Crow-Woman insisted on carrying the bag of 

 blood. Finally the young husband consented, and he secretly pierced it 

 with a thorn, so that it would leak away. So Crow- Woman carried 

 the bag of blood along home and spoiled her robe. The young husband 

 and wife made fun of her till she felt humiliated. 



One day Crow-Woman sought the company of the young married 

 folks, but was greatly disappointed at their actions. She felt so badly 

 that she went out upon the prairie and cried. Day and night she cried 

 on account of the ill treatment at the hand of her sister. 



One day while she was crying, a gopher came up to her and asked 

 her why she was crying so long out on the prairie. "My brother-in- 

 law disappointed me after I had done everything to please him," said 

 she. "Well, cease weeping, woman, I am the only one living who 

 has power," said the gopher. "I will run under the ground during 

 this night, and you may go there early in the morning and pull the 

 blankets away from them and tell Found-in-Grass to get up." So the 

 woman stopped weeping and went to the tipi and pulled the blankets 

 away from the young married folks and told the husband to get up 

 and stir around for his father-in-law. When Found-in-Grass got up, 

 his wife having gotten up first, he found himself in a pit up to his waist. 



