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came running. He shot them with arrows. When he had used up one of 
his quivers, he ceased. All the buffalo ran away. 
“Now, little sister, go take up all my arrows,” he told her. 
So the young woman went out and took up the arrows. 
Then, “Now, little sister, take all their tongues, but nothing more,” 
he told his sister, and so the woman, taking a knife, went and cut only 
the tongues; she took them all and came in, and cooked the tongues, pre- 
paring a meal. 
But when the young woman went out to get fuel, none at all lay there 
of the many beasts her brother had killed. She was amazed, for they had 
killed many buffalo. When, then, they had eaten, the man took some black 
Stroud and gave it to his little sister. 
“There, little sister, make clothes for yourself,” he told her; “I am 
always working at the ice, making holes. Do you never — for at some time 
someone will come here, little sister — do you never open the door for any- 
one, when you are alone,” he told her. 
So then that young woman kept sewing for herself, and then dressed 
in good clothes and decked herself out. Then she was handsome. When- 
ever One-Leg came home, he was glad, because his sister had already done 
the cooking. Therefore, he became very fond of his sister. She never 
had to fetch anything out of doors, even though he was one-legged. 
Whenever they had eaten up the tongues, “Now, little sister, deck 
yourself out; put on your finery,” he would tell her; and, when she had 
put on her finery, and he had burned incense under his flute, “Now climb 
up on the roof of the house,” he would tell her; “Sound the flute,” he would 
tell her; “When the buffalo come, then only after all of them have gone 
away, after they have fled, only then you are to climb down,” he told his 
little sister. 
Then he held his flute in the incense smoke. The young woman 
climbed aloft. Then, when One-Leg had opened the door, she blew the 
flute, and the buffalo came running, circling round their dwelling. Then, 
when One-Leg made war on them, and after they had fled, then the young 
woman climbed down. 
After hanging up the little flute, “Now, sister, go take up my arrows,” 
he told her. 
She went out and took up the arrows. 
When she had brought them in, “Take nothing but tongues, little 
sister; but not the meat. Whenever I kill game, you shall have only the 
tongues for your food, so highly do I esteem you, little sister,” he said to 
her; “When you were in piteous straits, ‘Let me befriend my little sister!' 
was my thought,” he told her. 
Accordingly, she went and took only the tongues. So there they 
dwelt. 
“Little sister, never go out of doors. Even though you see somebody, 
even though somebody comes here, you are not to go out of doors. There 
are many persons of evil ways of life,” he told her. 
“Yes.” 
So daily all day long the woman stayed alone, while One-Leg always 
went to chop holes out on the ice. And, just before nightfall, when One- 
Leg came home, he rejoiced that his sister always had the meal cooked 
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