76 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
there will be water. I shall be there. Let one big Buffalo come and let 
him blow his breath. I shall then jump out and the Buffalo will kill me. 
That is all.” 
The girls were then satisfied. They told of a wonderful bull with 
a white spot on his forehead, who was the leader of all Buffalo. Then 
they all slept. As the dawn came in the east, they arose and began to 
run. They went over high mountains and through valleys and again 
over mountains. The Buffalo then said: ‘‘ You will soon see clouds of 
dust. It marks the place where our people are.’’ They came to a 
valley, and as they climbed up the hill they began to see clouds that 
they knew were not rain clouds, but clouds of dust. When they arrived 
at the top of the hill, the girls said: ‘‘You may stay here; we will go 
down to our people and tell them that you have come.’’ The boy sat 
down on the hill and watched the two Buffalo go down the hill. He 
saw at a distance many tipis, as he thought, and at a distance he thought 
he saw many Buffalo playing with sticks. While the boy was watching 
all these things, he saw many Buffalo gather together where the two 
girls were, and they seemed to be talking with the girls. 
While he sat there someone spoke to him and said, ‘‘My son, where 
do you come from, and who has brought you here?’’ The boy looked 
around and saw an old Buffalo standing by him. The boy then said, 
‘‘Two women brought me here.”’ ‘‘Yes,”’ said the Buffalo, ‘‘I know, 
my son; the Buffalo wish to kill you. The Buffalo are angry with you, 
for you have been killing people, and your grandmother eats them 
instead of eating the Buffalo. I am chief of the Buffalo who come from 
where the sun sets. I know you have not eaten any people, so I will help 
you. Come to where my people are.’’ The boy followed the old Buffalo 
down the side of the hill, and he took him to his tipi. The bull then said: 
‘*My son, the first thing you want to dois to rise early to-morrow morn- 
ing, and go to the pond in front of the tipi of the Buffalo with the white 
spot on its forehead. There you must dive four times, then come out. 
If you let White-Spot-on-Forehead get into the pond first, then you 
must die; but I am to help you and I shall fight with you.”’ Early the 
next morning, before daylight, the boy was down to the pond, and dived 
four times, then came out. As the sun was coming up in the east, White- 
Spot-on-Forehead came out and went down to the pond to swim. When 
the bull got to the pond and smelled, he stopped, snorted, and said, ‘‘I 
smell a man in the water; I shall not swim.’’ White-Spot-on-Forehead 
Bull did not swim. Between morning and noon the Buffalo began to 
gather on all the open prairie. The boy and his followers were on one 
side, while on the other side were White-Spot-on-Forehead and his fol- 
