THE CANNIBAL WITCH AND THE BOY WHO CONQUERED THE BUFFALO. 73 
eating people.’’ The Buffalo all said, ‘‘Nawa.” It was decided to send 
two young Buffalo cows to the boy’s tipi to tell him that the Buffalo 
wanted him. While the Buffalo were sitting in council, planning how 
they could kill the boy, the boy sat on a high hill, and kept swaying his 
head from right to left, and as he swayed his head he listened. All 
at once he arose and said: ‘‘Someone wants me.’’ He went down to 
the tipi and said: ‘‘Grandmother, I am going on a long journey; is there 
anything you want?’”’ The old woman looked at the boy, and said: 
*“Look, my grandson; here is only a small piece of human meat for me. 
Go and kill four men and bring them to me, so that I shall have plenty 
tc eat, and in the night I will sleep in the midst of the dead men.”’ The 
boy was glad. He started at once and went to a village, where he killed 
one man. He carried the dead man to old Witch’s tipi without any 
trouble. He went back to the village and killed another man, but some 
of the people saw him and went after him; but they were too late, for the 
boy had disappeared and had taken the man to his tipi. His grand- 
mother was glad, for now she had two men. The boy went again tothe 
village, and this time he found it hard to kill anyone, but finally he suc- 
ceeded in killing a young man. He ran, the people following him. 
When the people came close to the boy he took his bow and shot. 
Again the people lost the boy. He went home and told his grandmother 
of his narrow escape; but his grandmother said: ‘‘My grandson, you 
have but one more to kill; you may be gone a long time, and I shall use 
up my best meat in the meantime.”’ The boy took courage and went 
back to the village. The first man he saw he killed, threw him upon his 
back, and fled. The people ran after him, but whenever the boy ran 
over a hill he disappeared, and came up on another hill. The people 
were so close to the boy that they could see that he wore deerskin leg- 
gings and had a yellow robe over his body and they thought that he 
must be a deer. The young man reached his tipi and threw down 
the dead man. He was angry and said: ‘‘Grandmother, I do not see 
why you want to eat people; I feel sorry for those people;” but the old 
woman said: ‘‘Grandson, go and kill one more for your grandmother 
and she will be happy.”’ The boy said: ‘‘No; now I can go on my long 
journey. Tie up the dogs, and, after I am gone, untie all of them except 
Afraid-of-Nothing. Keep him tied.”” The old woman tied up the dogs 
and the boy went off towards the west. 
For many days he traveled, but during all of that time he never saw 
any game, so that he was very hungry. Just as he was about to climb a 
hill he saw two Buffalo coming up on the top of the hill. The boy hid 
until the Buffalo came close to his hiding place, then he rose up and shot 
one through the sides, so that it fell and died. The otherran away toa 
