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 brought the tongues and hearts of the bufifalo to Buffalo- Woman, who 



took them for her food. Each wife seemed to excel the other in show- 

 ing her love for her husband. 



These events took place at intervals. The wives were still living 

 with their husband, but had a feeling, indirectly, toward one another. 

 When Blue-Feather was out in the camp. Elk- Woman again started 

 out (perhaps disgusted at being a second wife) to get away. When 

 he returned to his tipi. Elk- Woman was missing. He at once followed 

 her trail from the camp, but failed to locate her course. He kept in- 

 quiring about her, and finally got track of her path and caught her. 

 "Say, Elk- Woman, what are you going away for? Don't you know 

 I am always with you in your anxieties, and for that reason I have 

 taken the trouble to reach you ? Will you please go back with me and 

 make up your mind this time to stay at home," said the husband. Elk- 

 Woman stopped and consented to turn around for home. So they both 

 went back peaceably. 



While Blue-Feather was out after Elk- Woman, Buffalo- Woman 

 started out to get away. She was seen walking from the camp-circle 

 with a boy running in front of her. Upon Blue-Feather's return, she 

 was^one. "Where did my wife go? Can you folks tell me which way 

 she started ?" said he. He was very much worried in his mind. "Your 

 wife, Buffalo-Woman, with her boy, went away from here toward that 

 divide,'' said one woman who was a close neighbor to them. He was 

 very fond of his boy. ' Well ! I can't live without my boy and his 

 mother. I have got to search for them. I shall continue on the journey 

 until T find them," said he. So leaving word with his relatives that in 

 case there should be any mishap while he was on the way or at the 

 stopping place, there would be a cloud of dust reaching to the sky, 

 which should be noticeable to all (this man probably knew his fate, but 

 undertook the journey in spite of dangers, in order to get his boy), 

 set out after his wife and child, following the trail very closely, day and 

 night. He came to a camp-circle and inquired if the people had seen 

 anything of his wife and boy. "Well, my dear grandchild, your wife 

 and boy passed through here some time ago. They have gone over the 

 divide. She wa? going fast. Perhaps she was going, to the other 

 camp," said an old woman. So, without any unnecessary delay he 

 started on the trail and went for days and nights. Again he reached 

 another camp-circle and made another inquiry for 'his wife and boy at an 

 old woman's tipi. This old woman told him that his wife and boy had 

 passed through there some time ago, and were traveling fast. So he 

 kept on the journey, over the hills and divides, and this time the tracks 



