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and in readiness at his coming. He took loving care of her, asking her 
only whether they had used up the tongues, and when they were used up, 
telling her to put on her finery. 
Then, always, when she had put on her finery, “Now, climb up again, 
little sister, to play on the flute.” 
Truly, whenever she sounded it, the buffalo came, and circled round 
their house, while One-Leg attacked them. Only when he had used up 
his arrows did he stop, and then they would run away. Then the young 
woman came down and took up the arrows, and took only the tongues. 
And then always the creatures which he had killed would come back to 
life and go away. 
In this way they dwelt there, and as for One-Leg, he worked every 
day on the ice. Then at one time One-Leg knew that someone would 
come there. 
Thus he spoke to his sister; “Little sister, Wisahketchahk will come 
here. Do not open the door to him. It is no good he has in mind. Too 
much it is heard everywhere that I take loving care of you; ‘Let an 
attempt be made to have them go to destruction,' is the thought con- 
cerning us,” he told his sister. 
And so, as all day long each day he left his sister, presently, when 
she had almost used up the buffalo-tongues and had left only enough 
for one meal, then someone arrived: a man. She did not recognize him as 
Wisahketchahk. 
“Ha, open the door for me, little sister!” he said to her. 
She would not speak to him, though he said all kinds of things to her. 
Then he said to her, “Little sister, ‘Do you meanwhile go hunt buffalo. 
Our little sister will call them. It is almost time for us to go home; and 
there is nothing for us to eat in the morning,’ so spoke our big brother,” 
he told her. 
Then the young woman gave credence. 
“I shall fool my little brother now,” he thought, “That One-Leg.” 
Accordingly, she opened the door for Wisahketchahk. He entered. 
“Ho, little sister, hurry and deck yourself out. Soon your big brother 
will come upon you and find you laggard, with nothing ready cooked,” he 
said to her. 
“That is so!” thought the young woman, for her big brother was so 
kind to her. When she was told this, “He bids you so,” it made her give 
credence to him. So, after climbing to the top of the little house, she blew 
on the flute, and the buffalo came running. 
When Wisahketchahk knew that they were near, “Now let the shafts 
of all these arrows be soft!” said Wisahketchahk. 
Truly, so they were. Although he shot arrows at the buffalo, they 
broke and fell as they struck; he could not kill the animals. At last the 
buffalo spoke. 
“Let us rob Wisahketchahk of his little sister !” they said of him. 
At last he had used up the arrows. By this time One-Leg was coming 
home. But, though he came walking fast, when he came within sight, 
they had already knocked over the wooden house, so that the woman fell 
to the ground. Now, one of those buffalo, which was white, the one which 
-always walked at the head as they came, this one One-Leg never tried to 
kill; and now this same white buffalo tossed the woman on its horns, 
