80 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
They ran fast, but just as they came close to the boy, he shot one of 
his arrows and disappeared again. The Buffalo said to the Buffalo girls 
‘‘What did the boy say?” Both girls said: ‘‘ Proceed; he must be going 
on ahead.” The Buffalo went on. Again the Buffalo saw the boy, and 
as they again came upon him he shot his last arrow and disappeared. 
The Buffalo girls came up and said, ‘‘Proceed; he is on ahead.” The 
Buffalo went on farther and came close to the boy. The boy took his 
bow and threw it upon the ground and stood upon it. The bow turned 
into a blacksnake, which ran swiftly. 
Again the Buffalo lost sight of the boy and said: ‘‘Girls, where will 
the boy be?” The girls said: ‘‘Keep straight on until you come to a 
fine meadow, where there is grass.’’ The Buffalo ran until they came to 
a meadow, and the girls said, ‘‘Stop here.’’ The Buffalo stopped. The 
girls said: ‘‘Surround the meadow, and let every one of us eat this grass, 
so that there will be only a bunch of grass left standing.’’ The Buffalo 
all began to eat of the grass and came nearer the center as they ate. 
When they had eaten all but a little bunch of grass in the center, the girls 
said: ‘‘Now choose one bull who has a strong breath and let him blow 
his breath upon the bunch of grass, and the boy will come out from the 
grass.’’ One bull was chosen and he went to the bunch of grass and blew 
his breath, and the boy jumped out from the grass, but disappeared at 
once. The Buffalo tramped and hooked at one another, until they saw 
that the boy was not there. Then they said: ‘‘ Where will the boy be now, 
girls?’’ The girls said: ‘‘Go to the pond, and you will find him there.’’ 
All the Buffalo went to the pond and the two girls said: ‘‘ Now let all drink 
until the water is gone, for the boyis in the pond.’’ All the Buffalo went 
into the pond and began to drink. They drank so much that nearly all 
the water was gone. The turtles came crawling up and fish lay upon 
the mud. There in the center was a mud-hole. The Buffalo chose an- 
other bull with strong breath. As he blew his breath the boy jumped 
and came upon the dry land. The Buffalo closed in upon him and again 
the boy disappeared. ‘‘What now?” said the Buffalo. The girls said: 
‘We have killed him, for he has now used up all of his power.” 
The Buffalo went into the timber and sat under the shade of the trees. 
The boy was up in atree. He was kept up the tree so long that he wanted 
to urinate. He was afraid that if he should get down from the tree the 
Buffalo would take after him, so he gathered up his robe and urinated in 
the robe. The boy held the water in the robe until it began to seep 
through, so that drops fell upon the head of a bull that was sitting under 
the boy. The drops kept falling and the bull looked up towards the 
heavens and said, ‘‘We killed a wonderful boy, and that is the reason 
raindrops are falling on my head. I do not see any clouds; this boy 
