274 The King of the Thundering Herd 



out his incantations there was no certainty 

 that luck would be with the hunt on the 

 morrow. His squaw sat with her face 

 toward the wall, and might not move from 

 that position until after the run of the mor- 

 row. 



Badger Tooth had the greatest repute of 

 any among the Crees as a buffalo trailer, 

 and he it was who, mounted upon his fa- 

 vorite cayuse, would lure the buffalo to 

 their death. 



The following morning, just about the 

 time when that first faint shimmer came 

 into the east, even before it grew pink and 

 saffron, Badger Tooth, mounted upon a pinto 

 that had been in many buffalo hunts, 

 was pounding the prairie southward, going 

 to locate the bison. But an hour before, 

 two other warriors had gone away, one to 

 the southeast, and the other to the south- 

 west, each to make a large circle and come 

 out to the south of the herd. The wind 



