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The boy and girl build a house in which they live with the old wolf. Herds 

 of buflfalo and elk appear about the tent. The girl kills them by looking at 

 them. By sitting on the hides she dresses them, makes a tent, and cuts up all 

 the meat. By sitting on other skins, she makes embroidered robes of different 

 kinds, clothing, and bedding, for her brother, herself, and the old wolf. The 

 boy obtains a panther and a bear for dogs. The girl makes meat bags by sitting 

 on hides. They are found by visitors from the tribe. The people come to 

 them and are fed. The panther and bear kill the children's father. The 

 girl and her brother go to the sky. — K. 



128. — The Deserted Children. 



Two children are abandoned by the people. A dog frees them. They live 

 alone. The boy, by looking at buffalo, kills them. The girl, by sitting on the meat 

 and skins, cuts it up and dresses them. The people rejoin them, but the chil- 

 dren refuse to recognize their parents. — K. 



129. — The Young Man and his Father-in-Law. 



A young man is accepted as son-in-law, but is sent out to bring back 

 arrows. He is unable to bring any that are satisfactory and is killed by the old 

 man. This happens three times. A fourth young man is pitied by the spirit 

 of a lake and shown how to secure the right arrows. Then he also brings 

 feathers, and then arrow points. He is sent out again for buffalo horns. He 

 comes ,to buffalo., who pity him. A bull accompanies him, and when the 

 young man entices his father-in-law from the .tree where he is safe, the bull 

 kills him. His body is burned. The young man goes to the sky. — K. 



130. — Blood-Clot-Boy. 



A man treats his father-in-law cruelly. The old man finds a clot of blood 

 which becomes a boy. The son-in-law thinks it a girl and lets it live. The 

 boy kills him. He becomes a young man. He kills his older sister. He travels 

 and kills two dangerous persons. He comes to a blind (cannibal) woman who 

 can see him. He kills her. Her companions pursue him in various shapes. 

 He causes them to break through the ice, which then freezes hard. He comes 

 to a man who pushes people down a cliff, but Clot-child throws him down and 

 changes him to a buzzard. Clot-child comes to a camp where a woman speaks 

 disparagingly of him. At night he plays his flute and she comes to him and 

 marries him. He returns to his parents and then goes to the sky. — K. 



131. — Blood-Clot-Boy and White-Owl. 



In fall of year camp-circle for buffalo hunt is located near river, at edge 

 of thick timber. During this period Blood-Clot-Boy (or Searching-Child) be- 

 comes part of tribe. He grows up full of life and ambitious. He joins hunt- 

 ing party which kills many buffalo. While skinning beeves, dusky looking 

 cloud comes from north. Wind is very biting and clouds travel low. Men tell 

 Blood-Clot-Boy they have to go home soon, but he says it is impossible to 

 make snow and there is no such person as White-Owl. The men leave him 

 on ground facing toward storm, wrapped in robe. Soon ground is covered with 



