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"Come out and unload this pony," said he to his wife. The wife went 

 out with a different disposition and unloaded the pony's burden. "Well, 

 I am glad that you are attentive to your work and look well to your- 

 self," said the husband. 



The next morning the husband said to his wife, "Now, my dear 

 wife, I shall be gone for some time, and shall come home late. I shall 

 want you now to be careful not to pay any attention to anybody or to 

 any voice outside, but attend to your usual work. I shall try to come 

 home early if possible, but the game is a long way off." So the man 

 started off for more game. Soon after the husband had left the tipi, 

 this voice came by the door, calling distinctly for the woman, saying, 

 ■''How is it with you ?" She was so attracted that she took an awl and 

 punched a hole through the tipi and looked to see who that strange per- 

 son might be. "That is just what I have wanted for some time," said 

 the stranger, who now entered the tipi and took a seat back of the 

 center. He had tangled hair and looked very fierce. 



This woman immediately built a fire and placed a kettle over it, 

 placed the meat to boil, and after it was done, gave it to the visitor in 

 a wooden bowl. Then said the man, "That is not the kind of a bowl I 

 am accustomed to," so she took it back disgusted. She then took her 

 white buffalo robe (emblem of highest degree in the Buffalo-Women's 

 lodge) for his bowl, that he might eat out of it. But he said this would 

 not do. (She offered the buffalo robe because it was valuable in life.) 



She now meditated as to what might be the suitable sort of dish, 

 and finally thought of her best buckskin dress. So she took it off and 

 spread it before him and placed the meat upon it. "You have made a 

 close guess, but it is not the kind," said the man with the tangled hair. 

 ^'Well, what can it be, for I have even spread my best dress before him 

 and he has rejected it?" she said to herself. 



She was in great despair for some time, the man still waiting. 

 Finally she took the meat, got up and lay down in front of the man and 

 placed the meat on top of her chest. "Yes, this is the very kind I am 

 used to for a meat bowl," said he. The man then ate his meal, and 

 when about to finish it, he said, "Sometimes a man accidentally strikes 

 the bowl," cutting the woman's belly open. Finding that the 

 woman had twins, he threw one by the door and the other to the spring, 

 • and laid the woman, back toward the fire, covering her with her buffalo 

 robe. Then the man went out of the tipi. 



It wks after dark when the husband returned. "Come out, wife, 

 and unload this pony," said he. But the wife didn't answer for a 

 time, and he said, "That is the reason I told you to be careful when I 



