386 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. V. 



tance off."' After he had told his wife this, he went to sleep. In the 

 morning when his wife gfot up and looked at him he was different. 

 Then he said to her : "Go, tell your father that I am going- out on the 

 prairie to make buffalo." "Indeed, I will tell my father," said his wife. 

 Then she went to her father, and after she had told him, he went out and 

 called to all the people: "Spring-child is going to make buffalo; he 

 is not going very far off to make them." After Spring-child came back 

 he said to his wife : "I have already made the buffalo. Go over and tell 

 your father." He was a different person. All the people did not know 

 that he was Spring-child. He was a fine-looking young man. Then 

 his father-in-law went out to announce to the people that Spring-child 

 had made buffalo. At first his sister-in-law did not know him, but after 

 a while she recognized him to be Spring-child. 



Then the people went out to^ hunt the buffalo which he said he had 

 made, and found that he had really made them. All the men hunted 

 and they killed many, and after .they had killed them, they cut up the 

 meat. Then his sister-in-law went to where he was cutting a buffalo^ 

 but he did not look at her. He knew that she did not like him when he 

 was first married. "My brother-in-law, shall I hold it for yo.u?" she 

 said to him. "All right," he said, and his sister-in-law held the leg of 

 the buffalo for him. "Look out ! You will bloody yourself," he said to 

 this woman. "It is no matter," she said to her brother-in-law Spring- 

 child. Then he purposely made the blood drip on her dress and her 

 moccasins, but the young woman did not mind when her brother-in-law 

 was bloodying her. Then her younger sister said to her: 'I thought 

 you did not like your brother-in-law. Go away to your husband, the 

 crow." This her younger sister said to her. but she did not pay atten- 

 tion to what she said. 'T will have nothing to do with him, the ugly 

 one," she said about her husband, the crow. When they rode back to 

 camp, she was constantly in her brother-in-law's way^ but he did not 

 look at her. "Look out there, stand here, or you will become bloody/' 

 he said to her. "It does not matter'; let me help you, my brother-in- 

 law," she said to him. "No; I will put the load on myself," Spring- 

 child said, but she picked up the meat and lifted it, and her fine dress, 

 made altogether of antelope skin, became bloody all over. She forgot 

 all about her husband, the crow ; she did not think of him any longer 

 on account of her brother-in-law. Her husband, the crow, was flying 

 about them overhead, picking the fat from the eyes to take home ; they 

 left him where the buffalo heads were lying. He remained there awhile, 

 and after he came home he brought the fat from the eyes with him. 

 But his wife did not look at him. After they had all got home, the 



