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young man and the boy both walked in toward the camp-circle. Thus 

 one boy was returned to his grandfather and grandmother. 



(This may have reference also to the little bird on the forked stick 

 of the Sun-dance altar, because the mother carried the boy when com- 

 ing down from the sky, just the same as the geese carry the small 

 birds. The geese drop these little birds accidentally when flying south 

 or north.) 



After Moon got back from the hole where his wife went down, he 

 blamed the old folks for not watching her. From time to time he would 

 speak about his human wife, scolding indirectly, which made his other 

 wife mad. So one day this buffalo cow (Buffalo- Woman), with her 

 boy, started off and went back to their own home, which was four 

 divides in the distance. Her husband was out on the hunt, and came 

 back late in the afternoon. The wife and boy were gone from home, 

 and so the man, being very fond of his son, followed their trail until 

 he came to their camping place. The boy told his father that the dis- 

 tance was far and that he had better go back home. 



The cow and calf (woman and boy) then retired for the night 

 and the husband (Moon) slept near them, by himself. The woman and 

 boy got up early and started off on the journey, while Moon wfts fast 

 asleep. When Moon got awake, he at once took the same trail and 

 reached their camping place again. The boy said to him : "Father, 

 you had better turn around and go back to your father's home, for 

 where we are going to is far off." "Oh, no, my dear son, I am not 

 going back," said the father. So the woman and boy retired for the 

 night. The man (husband) took a separate bed again. 



Early in the morning the woman and boy left for the journey, 

 while this man was yet fast asleep. After the woman and boy had 

 gone a distance, this man w^oke up and saw his wife and boy gone. He 

 at once took the trail again and finally reached their camping place 

 in the evening. "My dear father, you have come far enough, and I 

 know that you love me dearly, but will you please go back, for the dis- 

 tance is far off," said the boy. "Oh, no, my dear son, it would be a 

 pitiable thing for me to let you and wife wander off," said Moon. The 

 woman and boy retired for the night, the husband making a separate 

 bed. 



As the animals are early risers, this woman and boy got up early in 

 the morning and left for their own home, the man still snoring. When 

 he awoke he found that the wife and boy had gone. He started on 

 their trail and reached their regular camping place in the evening 

 again, but stopped within a short distance. 



