74 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
ravine close by. The boy went to the dead Buffalo and cut into its back 
in such manner that he cut out one of the kidneys and was about to eat 
it raw, when some one spoke to him. The voice came from behind him 
and said: ‘‘Son, I am sorry you cut her in that way. Put back what 
you have in your hand, and be sure to put it in its place, then walk 
away and do not look.” 
The boy turned around and there stood a woman. The woman had 
a new buffalo robe over her. Her hair was not plaited. The woman 
said: ‘‘That Buffaloand myself came after you, and now you have killed 
her. Walk away.” The boy walked away. The woman turned to the 
Buffalo, fell down, and pushed the dead Buffalo around until the dead 
Buffalo moved and rose up. The woman who had spoken to the boy 
was a Buffalo, the mate of the other. As the two Buffalo circled, one 
staggering, the other pushing, the boy looked around and there were 
two Buffalo going around in a circle. The boy stood and watched. 
After the Buffalo that was killed walked away, the other came and 
said: ‘“‘It is all right now; go to yonder hollow “and wait and we will 
come, for we want to talk with you.” 
The boy went to the hollow and waited. The two Buffalo went to 
another hollow; there they rolled upon the ground and turned them- 
selves into women. Then they went where the young man was, and the 
two women sat down beside him. When they had seated themselves 
one of the women said: ‘‘We understand that you have wonderful 
powers. When you go and kill people and the people pursue you, you 
do something and you get away from the people. Is thisalltrue?’’ The 
boy said, ‘‘ Yes, it is true.’”” The women said, ‘‘Tell us what you do.” 
The boy said: ‘“‘I will tell you. You see my arrows? When I am 
running from anybody, I shoot one of these arrows, and at the same 
time I sit upon the flint point, so that the arrow carries me far away, 
and the people lose me.” “How many times can you do this?” the 
women asked. The boy said, ‘‘Four times, for you see I have four 
arrows.’’ ‘‘What do you do when you have shot your last arrow and 
the people are still after you.” ‘‘Well,’’ said the boy, ‘“‘I keep on 
until they are about to overtake me; then I throw this bow upon the 
ground, and I get away from them by traveling upon the bow, and 
when the bow stops, I stop.” ‘‘How would they find you then?” “I 
hide in a fine meadow, where there is thick grass, and if they were to 
cut all the grass I should be in the center.’’ ‘‘Now,” said the women, 
‘when they find you, then what?” ‘‘O,” said the boy, ‘‘Irun toa pond 
and hide there. If the people should throw the water out of the pond 
I would be in a mud hole, and there I would be killed.”? The women 
were satisfied. Then the two women and the boy arose and started 
