24 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
young man went into the village in the night and took with him the 
sticks and the ring, the basket and the seeds. In the morning the young 
man told his father to invite the chief and the leading men. The chief 
and the leading men came into their lodge. The boy said: ‘Chiefs and 
head men, take these sticks outside the village and call all the men and 
let them play with these sticks. Take also this basket and these plum 
seeds and give them to the women, so that they can play with them and 
not think about eating.’’ The chief selected several men to take the 
sticks out and show the men how to play with them. The chief also 
selected two men to take the basket and plum seeds and to teach the 
women how to play with them. The men liked this game. There were 
so many men playing that other sticks were made for boys to play with. 
There were also so many women playing the basket game that some of 
the women made other baskets and seeds for their daughters, so that the 
girls could play the game. The young man was satisfied with the way 
the games were accepted. 
He returned to the cave and the old woman was there to meet him. 
She said: ‘I want you to look through thisland. There are many earth- 
lodges in this country.’’ The young man looked, and he saw what 
appeared to him to be many ant-hills. He saw people coming out and 
going in again. The old woman said, ‘‘My son, you will have villages 
like these that you have seen; there will be many people.’’ The old 
woman then took the boy into her own lodge and they stood on the west 
side, and the old woman said: ‘‘Now look. I want you to examine 
closely the way this lodge is built, for your people must build lodges like 
this. Where we stand the altar shall be. When you have killed the 
buffalo that I have promised you, you must place the skull at the altar.” 
Then they went to the entrance on the north side, and she told the young 
man to sit down. She then went to the north of the lodge and picked 
up a wooden bowl filled with grains of corn. She told the young man 
to take the bowl full of corn with him and some night to give a few kernels 
to each individual in the village, so that all might eat of it. She went to 
the north side of the lodge and brought a small bowl of dried meat cut 
up. “This bowl of meat,” she said, ““you must put under your robe, and 
when the people come to get the corn you must give each a piece of this 
meat. Tell them to chew it, and not to swallow it for some time.’’ The 
old woman then told the young man to go to the village and to feed the 
people. The young man went down, and went into his lodge. He set 
down the bowls of corn and meat and awoke his mother and told her to © 
make a fire. When the fire was made the young man told his mother 
to tell all the people in the lodge to stay around by the fire. Then the 
