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But that woman, whenever her husband wanted to peep and see the 
people who were making all the noise, then just in time the old woman 
would hold back her husband. But the girls could see the people and the 
dogs running hither and thither about the deserted camp. Then, when 
only one buffalo was left, the people whooped everywhere. The old people 
heard them. 
“I do wonder! Surely these must be people!” thought she, the woman. 
She peeped out through the door: from all over the buffalo-pound 
smoke was rising into the air, the steaming breath of buffalo rising into the 
atmosphere, and at the same time all kinds of animals, as many as stay 
through the winter, came forth from the pound, all kind of wolves, every 
kind .of w'olf, and ran offside and away from the deserted camp. The boy 
came home. There was simply nothing left. His spell had been broken; 
his parent-in-law had spoiled his luck, 
“Yaha, Partridge-Claw is coming empty-handed and ashamed, for 
all his buffalo driving!” he said to him; “Let us play again. Whichever is 
beaten, let him fetch buffalo,” he said. 
Accordingly, they played throwing-stick. The prattler was beaten. 
Very early in tlxe morning he set out. Then on that other stretch of 
prairie, there where the other boy had taken buffalo-dung, from there he 
now took buffalo-dung, laying it in a row. This one did the same as the 
other had done. “Heyeyey!” he cried, and there, a great herd of buffalo 
rose to their feet. 
Then that girl, “Father, mother, once and for all time your son-in-law 
has forbidden you to peer out. W'hen the noise begins at the corral, do you, 
father, hold back my mother. Plainly it was she who spoiled things for her 
son-in-law. When the sound has entirely died away, then, after your son- 
in-law who has now gone away returns, then you will fetch the meat. Do 
not try to see things before that time. Only when your son-in-law arrives 
here are you to go to the pound,” she told her father and her mother. 
Presently the signals were waved. 
“Young men! Go lie in wait!” cried the people, and all over the 
abandoned camp-site the noise began, just as if the tents were yet there, 
and then the buffalo came running into the corral and were all killed. 
Even though he, that boy, said, “Nonsense, it is worth seeing, the 
crowd of people!” yet neither of his parents-in-law peeked out. 
But they themselves could see the people. 
Then, right there from the buffalo-pound they heard their father 
being called by name, “It is you, Buffalo-Dung, whose son-in-law is bring- 
ing the buffalo! That is why 1 am giving you the fattest one!” he was 
told, but he stayed right where he was; he would not peer out. 
Then when the people who had lived in that now deserted camp were 
called, now one, now another, by name, “This one is for you, Buffalo- 
Dung!” (meaning that he was to take the meat), when all the people, to 
the last one, were called by name, and when even the children were noising 
about in the abandoned camp, that old couple heard them all. But his 
children were outside, with the old people’s son-in-law. Presently they 
heard their son-in-law arrive. 
“There now, now let your father and mother go fetch the meats, and 
let them take some for you to eat. On all the drying-frames that are on 
the camp-site let them hang the meats, and for this drying-frame of yours 
