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it | into hiseyes. Magpie did not shut hiseyes. Hewas looking up. | 
Then his eyes began to water. They were filled with dirt. There- 
fore | they are this way. He said: ‘Raven flew back this way.” | 
Then at night they held a council. They said: “‘ Who will || go the 
way he flew back?” Then they said: ‘Jack Rabbit | and Hare.” 
On the following day the two youths started. | They went along. 
There was a river there. The wind blew toward them, | and they 
took his scent. Then they started, going up the river. | They saw 
a tent. It was the tent of two old women. || They arrived there. 
They did not know what it was. They saw many | tracks of buffa- 
loés. They said to each other: ‘‘What shall we do?’ | One said: 
“We will work our supernatural powers.””? One turned into a jack 
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rabbit. | The other became a stone. They staid there. | One of : 
the old women went to draw water. She went to a water hole in 
the ice. || There she saw a little dog near the water hole. | She did 
not like it, and pushed it into the water hole. Then | the young dog 
was cold. The old woman went back. The other old woman | also 
went to draw water. She saw the pup there at the | water hole. It 
was almost frozen to death. || She pitied it. It was thin. She took 
it and started carrying it. | She went in, and said to her companion: 
“Why did you | dothat?”’ She said to her: “It is poor; it will eat 
bones. | They must all bestarved. Therefore this pup came here.” | 
The other old woman went to get an anvil stone to pound || dried 
meat. She went along, and there was a good stone. | She started 
to carry it. She did not know that she had thrown into the water 
the one young man, | and that the otherone was astone. She carried 
it in. Then | the two youths worked their manitou powers. They 
staid there | in the tent of the old women. They staid there 
several days. || Then the two youths ate. The old women did not 
‘know it. | The two slept together during the night. On the follow- 
ing morning | the one was again a dog, and the other was a stone. | 
The two youths saw what happened | when the buffaloes came to that 
tent every night. || There was a bladder hanging by the door, | and 
there was a bunchof claws hanging there. When | the buffaloes came 
back, they shook the bladder | and the claws. | 
At night they said to each other: “Let us start back to the town | 
wherethey are hungry! Letustake back the buffaloes!” Then | they 
started. They saw a great number of buffaloes. One | of the youths 
burst the bladder with a stick; the other | took the bunch of claws. 
Then the one started. That one was | first. Then the other one 
started. There at the source of the river, || where the buffaloes were, 
1 Evidently an error, for later on he is a pup. 
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