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around all day long. When he came back in the evening his mother 
would take a bowl of water and wash his face, and comb his hair. She 
was very proud of her son, for he was a handsome youth. After a while 
the people noticed that the boy would not associate with the other boys 
of the village, but spent all of his days alone on top of the hill, and they 
wondered why he did this. Some said, ‘‘He is looking for a girl to 
marry.”’ Others said, ‘‘He must bea wonderful boy.” Uptothis time 
the people had not suspected that he was not of their family, and 
did not know that he had powers greater than theirs. He belonged to 
the Eagle family, and for that reason his mother gave him the name 
Without- Wings. 
One day while he was sitting upon the hill, looking over the country, 
he heard singing from the west. He listened again and heard the 
singing on the east side. Finally the singing came closer to where he 
sat. After a while he looked and saw that a woman was coming from 
the east and singing as she came. He heard someone singing behind 
him and there was another woman coming from the west. The song 
they sang was: 
Without-Wings, even your mother looks at you and her heart beats. 
I look at you, Without-Wings, and my heart beats. 
The woman from the east was Buffalo-Woman, and the woman from 
the west, Corn-Woman. Buffalo-Woman walked up to the young man and 
sat down on the right side of him. The Corn-Woman came up and sat 
down on the left side. Buffalo-Woman then said: ‘‘I know you have 
been thinking of marrying among your people, but what has been upper- 
most in your mind is that you want to marry Buffalo-Woman or Corn- 
Woman. I made up my mind to come to you. I came and I see this 
other woman here. I have brought you a pair of moccasins,’’ and she 
placed the moccasins before him. Corn-Woman spoke and said: 
‘What Buffalo-Woman has said is true. I also come and bring you 
moccasins.’”’ The young man was puzzled to know which moccasins to 
wear. While he pondered Buffalo-Woman took the right moccasin and 
put it on his right foot, and at the same time Corn-Woman took the left 
moccasin and put it on his left foot. Then each of the women took up 
her moccasin which was left. The young man spoke to them and said: 
‘‘T take both of you. We will now go down to the village and we will go 
into my earth-lodge.””» The two women followed the man down into 
the village. When they approached the village they saw a woman play- 
ing outside of the lodge as if she were a young girl. She was the young 
man’s mother. When she saw her son coming with two wives she ran 
