66 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
and entered the tipi. The woman was surprised, but she would not 
look at him. The little boy gave the father something to eat. In the 
night, when they lay down to sleep, the boy left his mother and went over 
and lay down with his father. The father then asked the boy questions 
and the boy told him all about their travel. Then the boy said: ‘‘My 
father, when you come to our lodge in the village of the Buffalo be care- 
ful that the stone at the entrance does not fall down upon you as you come 
in. My grandmother is a witch and she kills all handsome men who come 
through that doorway. When you come into the door she will say, 
‘Now go and find your wife.’ There will be many buffalo that look 
just like my mother, but I will be playing with some other calves, and I 
will run up to my mother and I will rub my tongue at the root of my 
mother’s tail, so that you can distinguish her from the others. Then 
there will be gathered together a lot of little calves and I will be among 
them, and when you come to find me among the calves I will shake my 
left ear a little, and then you will take hold of me and say that I am your 
son. Then my grandmother will try to make you do some other hard 
things, but I will help you.”’ 
While the boy was telling his father all these things, his mother woke 
up, and then they all arose and walked together into the village. 
When they came to the tipi of the Buffalo cow she and her son 
went in. Before entering, Without-Wings looked inside and saw a big 
Bear ready to jump upon him. He spoke to the Bear and said, ‘‘Be 
still.’’ When he said that, the large rock used for the entrance moved 
so that the entrance was wide open. Without-Wings started to goin, 
but the stone fell just as he was going through the entrance. As the 
stone fell Without-Wings turned into a soft downy feather, and as the 
large rock fell it brought the wind down with it, and the wind blew 
the downy feather inside before the rock could fall upon it. From the 
feather Without-Wings arose and the old witch was surprised to see 
him standing there. She told him that he would have to hunt his wife. 
There were many other cows with his wife, and the witch did not think 
that he could tell his wife from the others. He went among the cows 
and selected his wife, for he saw the mark that his boy had promised to 
put upon his mother’s tail. The old Buffalo cow then said: ‘‘ Without- 
Wings must be tired. JI want him to go into the sweat-lodge.” The 
little calf asked Without-Wings if he wanted to go into the sweat-lodge, 
and he said, ‘“‘Yes, I would like to go.” The old witch brought the 
stones and put them on the fire so that they would be red hot. Without- 
Wings went into the sweat-lodge, and then the old Buffalo cow went 
and invited six bulls to come and lie around the sweat-lodge, so that the 
