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thrust him suddenly under his robe. And the Female-buffalo said as follows: “Oh! 
grandfather, where is your grandchild?” Said he, “It has not yet come forth.” 
“Grandfather, your grandchild did come forth, (4. é., before you came),” said she. And 
the woman said this to him again and again; yet Ictinike continued Saying, ‘There 
is none.” And Ictinike said, “O first-born daughter of the household, I will go. It 
has not come forth.” And the Buffalo-woman said, “Grandfather, you do not tell the 
truth.” And Ictinike departed. And when Ictinike departed, he went out of sight 
to a very great distance. When he arrived he took the Buffalo-calf, and he sat wiping 
the Buffalo-calf with grass. And he was very white, and very excellent. ‘Haha! 
How easily have I done as I wished! They are saying, ‘We have been deprived of a 
very fine Butfalo-calf,” said Ictinike. And the Buffalo-calf ran around Ictinike. “Why! 
O third-born son of the household, come! come!” he continued saying. And the Buffalo- 
calf returned to Ictinike. And the Buffalo-calf, when he went around him again, ran 
to a little distance. “Why! O third-born son of the household, beware lest you run too 
far! You are my own,” said he. When it had been thus four times, the fourth time 
it occurred, he continued running homeward to his mother. And when Ictinike said, 
“Come back, O third born son of the household. Beware lest you run too far,” he 
departed without stopping at all. And Ietinike went to another place, very sorrowful. 
At length, as the Buffalo calf went along, an aged Buffalo-bull was sitting there. And 
the aged Buffalo-bull said as follows: “O third-born son of the household, they took 
away your mother in this direction. They have already taken her down yonder long 
bluff extending beyond the other bluff in sight. And, my grandchild, you shall go 
through occasional drops of rain.” (He said the words to him because he wished to 
make him strong.) And when the Buffalo-calf departed, there were occasional drops 
of rain. And when he reached the foot of the bluff, again was there a Buffalo-bull 
sitting. He said, “O third-born son of the household, they have just gone this way 
with your mother. They have gone to the foot of yonder long bluff extending beyond 
the other one in sight. You shall go walking through dense, misting rain.” (He loved 
him, therefore he said the words to him.) And when the Buftalo-calf departed, he went 
walking through dense, misting rain. And when he reached the foot of the bluff, a 
young Buftalo-bull, very new, small, of the sort that have very sharp horns, was sitting 
there. And the young Buftalo-bull said as follows: “O third-born son of the household, 
they have just taken your mother this way. They have gone to the foot of that bluff 
in sight, the one beyond that near by. You shall go walking through a very dense 
fog.” And when the Buffalo-calf departed, he went through a very dense fog. And 
when he reached the bottom of the bluff, behold, there were a very great many 
Buffaloes. When they sat in a cirele, his mother was caused to sit in the center. And 
they said, “Ho! ho! the child has come in sight.” (‘ft knew its loss, therefore it is 
coming hither to you.”) And, behold, a very aged Female-bufialo, very scabby, very 
poor, was sitting with her own calf directly in line with the approaching Calf. And 
then when the White-buffalo-calf reached the aged Buffalo-woman, he sucked at her 
breast, as he was very hungry. And one said, “‘ Let four Buffaloes start for this one 
sitting a little way off. He sucks the breast there.” “We have come tor you. This 
one at a short distance is your mother,” said they. And the Buffalo-calf was unwill- 
ing. When they wished to take him home, they failed. And the four went homeward. 
When they reached home, they said, “ Leader, we have failed.” _“‘Unsplintered-horns, 
