ADVENTURES OF THE ORPHAN. 605 
And the people came in crowds to view the spectacle, the body of the famous bird. 
And when the Orphan approached the spot, he pulled out a feather, so the people 
thought, but he really took the entive bird, and carried it home. And the chief said, 
“ Bring my son-in-law hither!” So the people took the bird, as they imagined, that 
had been killed by Ictinike, and brought it and !etinike to the chief. And Ictinike 
inarried the elder daughter of the chief, making his abode in the chief’s lodge. 
In the meantime the Orphan had reached home. *‘Grandmother,” said he, ‘* I have 
killed the bird.” “Oh! my grandchild! Ob! my grandchild!” said she. “ Grand- 
mother, make me a ‘ we¢ita®-teg¢e’ between the tire-place and the seat at the back of 
the lodge,” said the Orphan. Aud after she made it (the Orphan hung the red bird 
upon it?). And the Orphan and his grandmother had their lodge filled with a very 
red light. By and by the young man said, “Grandmother, make me a hide hoop.” 
And his grandmother made the hoop for him, placing it aside to dry. But the Orphan 
could hardly wait for it todry. At lastit was dry. ‘Ho, grandmother, sit in the 
middle (between the fire-place and the seat at the back of the lodge ?),” said he. Then 
the Orphan went out of the lodge and stood on the right side of the entrance. Said 
he, “Grandmother, you must say, O grandchild, one of the Buffalo people goes to 
you.” And the old woman obeyed. She rolled the hoop from the lodge to the Orphan. 
When the hoop rolled out of the lodge, it changed suddenly into a buffalo, and the 
Orphan wounded it through and through, killing it near the entrance. He and his 
grandmother cut up the body, and his grandmother cut the entire carcass into slices 
for drying. At this time the people in the village had nothing to eat. The grand- 
mother prepared a quantity of dried buffalo meat mixed with fat, and the Orphan told 
her to take it to the lodge of the chief, and to say, to the chief’s (unmarried?) daughter, 
““O, daughter-in-law! your father may eat that.” The old woman threw the bundle 
into the lodge, turned around suddenly, and went home. When the bundle was thrown 
into the lodge, the chief said, “ Look! Look! Look!” And when one of the daughters 
went to look she could not see any one. (The Orphan, by his magie power, had ren- 
dered his grandmother invisible; therefore on the fourth day he said, ‘* Grandmother, 
you shall be visible when you return.”) And Ictinike said, “Only one old woman 
dwells apart from us, and sheis the one.” Andit was so four times. When the forrth 
time came, the old woman carried a sack of buffalo meat on her back, and on top of 
the sack she carried the bird. Then said the Orphan, ** Grandmother, now you shall 
be visible when you return.” So the old woman departed. When she was very near 
the chief’s tent, that tent began to shine with a red light. As she passed along by 
the lodges the people said, **Oho! we did think that the Orphan had killed the bird, 
but you said that Ictinike killed it. Now the Orphan’s grandmother has brought it 
hither. To whom will she take it?” And the people stood looking. ‘Oho! she has 
carried it to the chief’s lodge!” When she reached the entrance, she threw down the 
sack, letting it fall with a sudden thud. “Oh! daughter-in-law, your father and 
brothers may eat that,” said she. * Look! Look! Look!” said the chief, ‘‘she has 
done that often!” And Ietinike said, ‘Only one old woman is left there, and she is 
the one. Who else could it be?” And they went to see. And behold it was the 
grandmother of the Orphan. “It is the Orphan’s grandmother,” said (one of the 
daughters). “Ho! bring my son-in-law to me,” said the chief. And they took the 
pack which the old woman had brought and they hung it up with the bird. They 
