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run back and find it for you. I shall be back soon," said the boy, start- 

 ing off briskly toward his father. "Oh, dear father, I am here again. 

 My dear grandfather wants to know what he should have for his 

 hair ?" said the boy, in a pleasing voice. So the father reached be- 

 hind the bed and pulled out a nice jet black hide of a bear and handed 

 it to the boy, saying, "Take this bear's robe over and give it to him." 

 So Calf-Boy took it and delivered it to him. "Oh, grandfather, I am 

 here again. I have brought over a bear's robe for your hair. My 

 father told me that was all he could do for you. So please take it 

 for good," said the boy. 



Lone-Bull appreciated all that was being supplied, therefore his 

 entire body was made up of these articles. Thus a life was re- 

 versed. 



Other articles were taken over to Lone-Bull to make up other 

 parts of his body, but were not remembered. In the mouth of the 

 buffalo there are rows of little protuberances in the lower and upper 

 jaws, which are said to indicate a camp-circle. — D. 



Told by Little-Coyote. In a Pawnee tale of " How the Buffalo were Conquered," the trans- 

 formation of a buffalo cow into a woman, and vice versa, always takes place in a buffalo wallow. 



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