THE SMALL-ANTS BUNDLE AND THE BUFFALO. 27 
it ona high hill. The young man told the four men to put the meat upon 
their backs and follow him, one of them carrying the hide. They went 
into the boy’s lodge and the meat was placed southeast of the entrance. 
The young man told his father to invite some of the older men. The 
father went and brought in some old men and when they came the young 
man said, ‘‘ People, we must first make an offering to Mother-Corn, for she 
gave us the buffalo.’”’ Then the young man took the heart and tongue 
and said, ‘‘Boil these things.’’ The men put the tongue and heart in a 
vessel and after it had boiled for some time he took it out. The young 
man then sent the crier through the village to tell all the men to be ready to 
try to get a piece of this heart and tongue and a little piece of fat to grease 
their families with. The young man went out of the lodge with the heart 
and tongue, the errand man following him with native tobacco in his hand. 
The young man went to the west of the village, and standing there he 
lifted the heart and tongue up toward the sky and gradually lowered them 
to the ground. He placed the heart and tongue on the ground, then the 
errand man handed him the tobacco. He lifted the tobacco toward 
the sky, lowered it and placed it upon the heart and tongue. Then as 
he turned to go back to the lodge he and the men ran to the place, and 
they piled one on top of another in their efforts to get a piece of the heart 
and tongue. Whenever a man got a piece of fat or heart or tongue he 
ran to his lodge, and after rubbing some of the grease upon himself he gave 
it to his people and told them to put the grease upon themselves, and 
when through with it to put it in the fire. 
When the young man entered his lodge he sat down and spoke: *‘ Chief, 
men, and old men, what I have done is not complete. Mother-Moon will 
tellus more of what todo. Wemust doasshe says every time we kill the 
buffalo.’’ Then the young man selected several men to take the meat and 
boil it. After they had taken the meat, the young man told the chief to 
tell the crier to go through the village and tell all the men to get their 
bows and arrows and follow the young man with the feather-stick. When 
the young man stuck the stick into the ground at the same place where 
he had it before, the buffalo rushed out of the cave and went toward the 
people. The men began to kill the buffalo. Some of the buffalo ran 
south, some west, some east, and some north. The men killed many 
buffalo and brought the meat to the village. 
The people were satisfied. They began to cut timber to make their 
lodges, for the young man had instructed them to build earth-lodges. 
Every four days the young man went out, stuck his feathered stick into 
the ground, and again the buffalo rushed out of the cave. The fourth 
time the young man said: ‘‘This is all. The buffalo are out of the cave 
