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can; it was so juicy that when one touched it there was grease on his 

 hand. "I know you are trying to make our husband like you best by the 

 food you provide. I will show you what wins liking," said the Elk- 

 woman. She went out to the mountains, and gathered leaves and ber- 

 ries of nahauwina ; she beat these into pemmican to make it sweet. 

 "This is pemmican with a flavor,'' she said to h^r husband as she gave it 

 to him, looking at the Buffalo-woman in order to displease her. "Is 

 that all you can do?" said the Buffalo- woman to her. "I will not even 

 look at it; I will not eat it!" She made pemmican and put red berries 

 from the river into it. Then she brought it in and laid it before her 

 "husband, saying : "If that does not please you, I do not know what will. 

 It is the best food; even animals like to eat it." The man said: "1 

 like both of you. and you must not have any jealousy towards one an- 

 other. On a(icount of my boy I cannot let one of you go." 'How is 

 it that you always sit with Elk-woman? If you like your boy you 

 ought always to be on my side of the tent," said the Buffalo-woman. 

 ^'I will leave you, together - with my boy." He paid no attention to 

 her. One night while he was fast asleep with his other wife, the Buf- 

 falo-woman and the boy went out. A short distance from the tent 

 they becarrie buffalo again, and their tracks were the tracks of hoofs. 

 The calf left tracks showing how it had jumped about in play. They 

 traveled all night, and in the morning came to a hill. Beyond the hill 

 was an immense herd of buffalo. When they were seen coming by the 

 buffalo, an old man cried : '^Blue-bird's son is coming." The woman 

 and the boy reached the buffalo; she inquired for the boy's grandpa- 

 rents, and was told that they were not there. They started again and 

 ■continued to travel. It became night, and they went on. In the morn- 

 ing they came over another ridge, and again saw a herd; the buffalo 

 were thick, sitting (lying) and standing about. When the calf saw the 

 buffalo, it ran ahead of its mother and then back to her, while she loped 

 along to overtake it, afraid that the calf might become separated from 

 ber and be lost. Again she inquired for her parents. Now Blue-bird 

 began to miss his son. He thought : "I love my son. I wonder where 

 they have gone." He did not know which way to go to follow them. 

 Going out of the tent, he saw buffalo tracks leading eastward. He 

 started out to find them. At the foot of the first hill night came on and 

 he slept there. Early in the morning he went over the hill. There he 

 saw the buffalo. They knew him to be Blue-bird. "There comes Blue- 

 bird, looking for his son," they said. He reached the herd, and asked 

 about his wife and boy ; they told him that they had just gone over the 

 next hill. He hurried on, and when night came, slept at the foot of the 



