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‘‘Yes, children. So put the lodge in order at the other side of the 
fire. Go play with them, each of you with one. That will keep you from 
being lonesome, if you play with them. Go invite them,” those girls were 
told. 
Late in the afternoon those girls went there. Of those who are talk- 
ative, such was the elder girl. The younger was not given to much speech. 
Of those boys, too, it was the elder who was a prattler. 
So, when they came to where the others were, “You are to come to 
our house and play with us!” 
“Look at the girl you are going to marry!” said the prattler; “Yah, 
do not forget you came here to take a wife! Go stay W'ith your wife's 
people!” he said to his younger brother. 
“But it is you are planning to take a wife, not I,” the bashful one 
answered him. 
“Yes! Now he has told you!” the prattler said to them. 
Then the girls ran back home. They all stayed there. ***** 
Then at one time, as they played with throwing-sticks by the door, 
“Now then, Partridge-Claw!” said the one, calling his junior by name; 
“Whichever is beaten will drive in the buffalo. Tomorrow let us make 
the buffalo run into this old buffalo-pound here. Our father-in-law is 
suffering too much from hunger, what with their eating nothing but soup,” 
he said to him. 
“Very well,” the other answered him. 
They pitched their throwing-sticks. Partridge-Claw was beaten. 
The babbler gaily whooped. 
“I have beaten him! Now he will be the one to drive in buffalo!” 
he said of the other. 
Then, when they went to bed, he said to his wife, “Let not your father 
and your mother peek out from the lodge, when they hear anything; I am 
going to drive in buffalo. Be sure to tell them. If they do not peek out, 
then, when the noise ceases, your father and mother are to come out of 
the lodge; they will go to the pound,” he told his wife. 
Accordingly, just before dawn, the bashful boy went away. When he 
had gone far, day broke, and he drove buffalo. He took a great amount of 
buffalo-dung, and laid it in little heaps in a row. 
Then he said, “Hey hey heyey!” 
When he gave this cry, great numbers of buffalo rose from the ground. 
“Heyeyeyey hey hey hey!” he cried. 
Thereupon they ran off. He brought a great herd with him. 
Presently, as morning passed and it was nearing noon, the waving of 
signals began. 
He heard people calling, “Hold the dogs, lest they bark!” — so cried 
the one who called out directions while the herd was awaited. 
Then they heard a great crowd of men, and dogs baying everywhere 
in that deserted camp, and loud whooping as though of their fellow-campers, 
as the buffalo ran into the enclosure. 
“Now, father, ‘Let him at no time peek out!’ said your son-in-law!” 
thus spoke that girl. 
And that other boy, the talkative one, “Nonsense! Let them look out 
at a sight worth seeing! Let them see how many people thei'i are!” said 
that boy. 
