BUFFALO-WIFE AND CORN-WIFE. 67 
man could not get out. Then she went into the sweat-lodge. She tooka 
large buffalo-horn spoon and dipped water from a bucket and poured the 
water upon the hot stones. The steam began to come down upon their 
naked bodies, and when it became too hot the man turned himself into 
a Badger and duginto the ground so that only his mouth and head stuck 
out of the ground. While the witch was grunting and making her medi- 
cine upon the hot stones, Without-Wings would call to her and say, 
*‘Pour some more water on the stones, old woman, for this is not warm 
enough for me.’”’ The witch thought that by pouring water upon the 
red-hot stones she could scald the man to death, but she found that she 
was getting the place too hot for herself, and so she asked that they get 
out of the lodge. They left the lodge and the man saw the Buffalo bulls 
around the sweat-lodge. When the bulls saw the man coming out 
uninjured they jumped up and ran away from the place. 
A few days afterwards the old witch told Without-Wings that he 
must go after some wood, and she sent him to a place where there was a 
tree with an Eagle’s nest upon it. It was a place where no one had 
- ever been before, but Without-Wings went. When he came near to 
the tree where the Eagle’s nest was, a storm began to brew in the sky 
right overhead, and the lightning struck all around him. Without- 
Wings spoke to the Eagles and told them who he was, and then the light- 
ning stopped and the storm passed. He gathered the wood and took it 
to the old witch, who was greatly surprised, for she thought that the 
lightning would kill him, as it had all others who had tried to go there. 
A few days afterwards the old Buffalo cow challenged Without- 
Wings to run arace with her. Without-Wings thought that she 
would run about forty or fifty yards, but when she explained the length 
of the race, he knew that she was going to run to the four world quarters. 
She said: ‘‘If you should beat me, then the people will be allowed to 
live upon the buffalo. If I beat you, the buffalo shall live upon the 
people.’’ When they got ready to run the race, Without-Wings turned 
himself into a Magpie. When they started the witch had a cane, and 
this cane she pointed as far as her eyes could see, and then she was there. 
Again she pointed the cane as far as her eye could see and again she was 
there. In this way she traveled, going at a single step as far as her eye 
could see, and so she was far ahead of Without-Wings. He commanded 
the Badgers to dig holes all around so that she would fall into these holes 
while he would gain on her. 
The Badgers began to dig and soon the witch began to fall. She fell 
so often that Without-Wings finally passed her and left her away behind. 
He continued running and finally he went all the way around the world 
