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buffalo. Do you then tell your father not to deprive the people; he is not 
to take the fat meats; tell him this. Now, when I bring the buffalo, I 
shall come walking at the head. I shall be wearing a leather coat; I shall 
have breeches of the like; and a buffalo-robe I shall have for my blanket; 
there will be horns on it and hoofs. And an otterskin I shall have as my 
headgear. That will be I. I shall enter the buffalo-pound. The buffalo 
will follow at my heels. Opposite the entrance I shall climb up on the 
hurdle; up there I shall stay. You will come there; you will bring stewed 
berries. There we shall eat; we two shall eat together. If you have good 
clothes, you shall put them on when you are about to come there,” he told 
his wife. 
Then they went to sleep. Presently that young woman woke up 
from her sleep. Her husband was not sleeping there; he had already 
gone away to fetch the buffalo. Soon day broke. And so, when they had 
got up and she and her elder sister had eaten, she went out of the lodge, to 
her father. 
She said to him, “Father, your son-in-law departed early this morn- 
ing.” 
“Oh, dear me, daughter, why did you not stop him? My son-in-law 
will freeze,” said he. 
“But this is what your son-in-law says to you, father: ‘When I bring 
the buffalo, he is not to do that way, to take the fat meats, to rob his 
followers of the fat meats,' your son-in-law tells you, and that you are to 
announce that they shall watch for buffalo. This is what your son-in-law 
said.” 
“Very well, daughter, I shall stop; as my son-in-law says I shall do.” 
Thereupon the young woman went home. 
Then that old man went outside and said, “Young men, be on the 
lookout. Early in the morning, I hear, my son-in-law went out to fetch 
buffalo,” said the old man. 
Accordingly the young men kept watch all day. After the day had 
reached noon, there came the buffalo. Already that young woman was 
cooking berries, thinking that doubtless her husband would soon arrive. 
Behold, as the herd approached, those young men saw a very handsome 
youth leading at a run the buffalo, who followed at his heels. Not at all 
did they recognize that youth. He promptly entered the pound; then 
at a point opposite the entrance that youth flung himself climbing to the 
top of the hurdle; at that moment the buffalo ran in. At once she 
saw the handsome youth: he was her husband. At once the young men 
and the women climbed up from all sides to see the buffalo. And while 
they were shooting at the buffalo, that young woman went to give her 
husband the berries which she had placed in a bowl. The elder sister, 
who had scorned him, saw him ; now that he was handsome, she liked him, 
as she saw her younger sister climbing up to give him the berries, saying 
to him, “Here, take these.” The youth took them. Everyone liked the 
youth. So then the elder sister, who had scorned him, ran home. 
She said to her mother, “Mother, let me have some berries!” 
Her mother gave her some. Then she stewed them. She did not stew 
them long, for she thought, “It is almost time for our husband to come 
home,” and was happy over the thought. Because she had seen her 
