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person who commits this wrong against my people !" striking him dead. 

 He then cried out to those who were about to be slaughtered and said, 

 "All of you, ccme back, for here is the specimen of delicious food 

 which comes from those people. Come quickly and taste the pemmi- 

 can of them !" When they heard him crying for their deliverance, 

 they halted instantly and returned to him, taking a bite of the pem- 

 mican. Thus the multitude running into the corral was saved from 

 death. In a short time, there was a big camp-circle of human beings, 

 in which this husband was a chief or ruler. 



The other people, seeing what the husband had done, became 

 enraged. So the people decided that Big-Bull, or Lone-Bull, should 

 challenge the husband for an exhibition of power. The winner was 

 to have the ruling power. The young boy just born to the human 

 husband went and told his father the particulars, saying, "My father, 

 I want you 10 know this and bear it in mind that there are two soft 

 spots about his body and the rest is- bones. They are .located in front 

 below his neck and at the flanks (at the kidneys)." The boy was 

 panting and occasionally looking at his relatives. The boy returned 

 to his relatives and played with his companions. Lone-Bull sent 

 for the boy, and said angrily, "You may go over and tell your father 

 that I shall come over for a duel. I want him to be on the ground, 

 ready to defend himself." So the boy ran to his father and told him 

 exactly what was ordered. The husband then took his bow with the 

 four arrows and walked to an open space. Lone-Bull, seeing him on 

 the ground, started toward his antagonist, throwing up clouds of 

 dust in the air. The husband was standing in a solitary position, 

 when Lone-Bull arrived. "You may know that I have the controlling 

 power. So if you possess such power, have it ready, for when I go 

 for any one I hook and kill him instantly," said Lone-Bull, pawing 

 the dust in the air. Lone-Bull then made a terrific rush at him, but 

 missed him. Just as Lone-Bull was in the act of hooking, the hus- 

 band dodged away quickly, placing himself at a different spot, and 

 grunted angrily at the bull. Lone-Bull then circled about and pawed 

 the dust in the air, much enraged. He then made another terrific 

 rush at the man, but hooked the ground, missing the man completely. 

 This man grunted again and placed himself on a different spot. Lone- 

 Bull, being much enraged, circled about, pawing and sending up in 

 the air clouds of dust like a rainbow, and throwing up his tail charged 

 upon the man again, but missed again. Again the man dodged away 

 and landed on a different spot. Lone-Bull, being much enraged, 

 rubbed his nose on the ground, taking deep snorts and pawing, which 



