64 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
into the lodge and put on an old, ragged dress. Then the young man 
took his wives into the lodge. 
The two women knew that they both loved the young man, and 
they also knew that his mother loved her son. The mother was very 
glad to have the two women to live in the same lodge with her, and 
for a long time they all lived together. After a while Buffalo-Woman 
began to show signs of pregnancy. When her time was almost up she 
told the young man that she had to go out upon the prairie. She went 
out and while upon the prairie she gave birth to a male child. Soon 
after Buffalo- Woman came back with her child Corn-Woman began to 
show signs of pregnancy. She told her husband that she had to go into 
the corn-field, but that she would return in a day or so. She went into 
the corn-field and there she gave birth to a male child. In a day or so 
she brought the child to their lodge. They all lived together happily 
until the little children grew up and could walk. The children were 
playing together and the two mothers were looking at them. Buffalo- 
Woman gave her son a little black buffalo-horn spoon. Corn-Woman’s 
little boy wanted the black buffalo-horn spoon and cried for it, but the 
other boy would not give it up, and so to quiet her son, Corn-Woman 
gave him an ear of black corn. When little Buffalo-Boy saw the corn 
he wanted it, but Corn-Boy refused to give it to him, and so they began 
to quarrel and fight. Then the mothers became angry at each other, 
and before Without-Wings knew anything about it, Buffalo-Woman 
ran away with her boy. After Buffalo-Woman and her child were gone, 
Corn-Woman wanted to go to her home. Without-Wings wanted to go 
with Corn-Woman, but Corn-Woman told him that it would not do for 
him to go with her, and that he had better follow Buffalo-Woman. 
She told him that although he could not see her she would always be 
present with him and would help him. When she said this she and the 
boy disappeared and they went back into the under-world. 
Early in the morning Without-Wings took the shape of an 
Eagle and flew up into the air and flew towards the east. He had not 
gone far when he saw a Buffalo cow and her calf. Without-Wings flew 
above them all day, and in the evening the Buffalo cow turned into a 
woman and said that she was going to set up a tipi. The woman set 
up a tipi and began to cook something to eat. The calf turned into a 
boy and played about his mother. Without-Wings then flew down, 
turned himself into a man and went up to the tipi. Buffalo-Woman 
would not look at him, but the little boy ran up to his father and brought © 
him something to eat and told him of their travels. After they had 
eaten they all lay down and went to sleep. Early in the following 
