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deep down into tlie ground. But the Crow now called on his friend, 

 the Turkey, to dig him up. The Turkey came and scratched until he 

 dug down to the young man, and with tlic aid of a bark rope, which 

 the Crow had made, togetlier they drew him up. 



The old chief now made up his mind to leave the viUage and the 

 bad people, who were enemies of his son-in-law, and to go with the 

 good people of the village to live at the lodge of his son-in-law's 

 grandfather. They all went and settled down there and lived 

 happily. 



8. The Man Who Mahried a Buffalo Woman 



Near the river, at the place now called Corydon, in Pennsylvania, 

 there lived a family of Indians. One of the boys arose very early one 

 morning and went to the river. The air was foggy, but the boy heard 

 paddling and soon saw two little people called Djogeon ^' in a canoe, 

 who came to the place where he was and landed. One of them said : 

 " We came on purpose to talk with you, for you are habitually up 

 early in the morning. We are on a buffalo hunt. There are three 

 buffaloes, two old and one young, which run underground. If they 

 should stop in this pai't of the country they would destroy all the 

 people, for they are full of witchcraft and sorcery. In two days you 

 must be in this place very early." 



When the time was up the boy went to the same spot on the river 

 bank and in a short while the Djogeon came and said: "We have 

 killed the two old buffaloes, but the young one has escaped to the 

 west. We let him go because some one will kill him anyway. Now 

 we are going home." When they had said this they went away. 



On the Allegany reservation the Seneca collected a war party 

 to go against the Cherokee. One of the company was the fastest 

 runner of the Seneca. Before they got to the Cherokee country they 

 met the Cherokee and all the Seneca were killed except the fast run- 

 ner. He ran in the opposite direction until out of their reach ; then he 

 started home by a different road from the one on which the party 

 had set out. The third day, near noon, he came to a deer lick, and 

 while he sat there he saw tracks which looked like those of a very large 

 bear ; he followed these until they led to a large elm tree ; he found that 

 the animal was not an ordinary bear, but one of the old kind, the 

 great Ganiagwaihegowa,'* that eats people, and he said, " It nuitters 

 not if I die, I must see it." Climbing the tree and looking down into 

 the hollow in the trunk he saw the creature. It had no hair ; its skin 

 was as smooth as a man's. He thought: " I had better not attack that 

 creature. I will go back to the deer lick." Getting down, he ran to 

 the lick. Then he heard a terrible noise and, looking back, he saw 

 the animal come down from the tree. Drawing back, he ran and 



