THE CANNIBAL WITCH AND THE BOY WHO CONQUERED THE BUFFALO. 81 
must have been a wonderful boy.’’ While the bull was talking to him- 
self the water had made a hole through the robe, so that it poured down on 
the head of the bull. The bull looked up and there was the boy sitting 
up in the tree. The bull rose, and grunted, as much as to say, ‘‘ Here is 
the boy.’’ Every one of the Buffalo rose and gathered around the tree. 
The Buffalo saw the boy and said: ‘‘We must get him this time, so that 
he will never kill any more men for food; but will kill our people. What 
shall we do to get the boy down?”’ One of them said: ‘‘Let us select five 
great bulls to run against the tree, and the tree will fall down and we 
will get the boy.”’ Five large bulls were selected, who ran against the 
tree, and two fell dead at the bottom of the tree. Then the Buffalo said: 
“This will not do.’’ One of the Buffalo said: ‘‘Let us hook at the ground 
with our horns and dig up the roots.’’ They tried this plan, but their 
horns were broken off, so they gave it up. One of them said: ‘‘Let us 
hook the tree and take out piece by piece until we can get it down.” 
One bull ran up and hooked the tree with his horn, so that the bark of 
the tree fell off. The others tried, and the bark came off easily. They 
kept on hooking and some of the Buffalo broke their horns, but they kept 
on until the tree became small at the base and began to quiver. 
The boy became frightened and gave a loud yell. Again he gave a 
loud yell; then he waited. When he gave the yell the dogs at home be- 
gan to run about, but they did not seem to know where the voice of the 
boy came from. The old woman, the boy’s grandmother, also stood up 
and ran around. She finally went up to the bob-tailed dog and released 
it, and said, ‘‘Afraid-of-Nothing, your brother is in danger; lead us to 
where he is.’’ The dog gave a loud yelp and ran west, the other dogs 
following, the old woman close behind them with a club. The dogs 
reached the Buffalo herd and the Buffalo felt them upon their heels, so 
that they began to run. Sometimes the dogs would bite their legs, 
so that they fell. The old woman, when she came up to them, hit the 
Buffalo with her club, and she killed many. As they ran past the 
tree, it fell down easily, so that the boy was not hurt. 
When the Buffalo had all gone away the boy said: ‘‘Grandmother, 
cut up some of these Buffalo, so that we can get something to eat; and 
you, my grandmother, must eat this kind of meat and do not eat 
people any more.”’ The old woman cut up some of the Buffalo and 
roasted the livers for herself. She said: ‘‘Grandson, this tastes like 
man’s flesh. Hereafter, old women of my age shall eat liver, for it is soft 
and good.”’ ‘‘Now, grandmother,”’ said the boy, ‘‘we must go home, for 
there we must separate.’’ The boy tookhisgrandmotherhome. When 
they reached home the boy said: ‘‘Grandmother, you must go north; 
