THE SON OF WIND, READY-TO-GIVE. 93 
and they will bless my boy. They will pray to him and beg him for some- 
thing to eat. My boy shall rule the people and he shall call the buffalo 
whenever the buffalo are not to be found, by saying: ‘Ready-to-Give, 
blow your breath upon the land that it may touch the buffalo and 
make them to come to our village.’ My son is now old enough to 
kill game. I shall have to go, as it is now winter and I shall have to 
stand in my place in the north, for it is my time to send food to people. 
You know where to go and dig artichokes and beans. The boy will not 
have to go very far to kill buffalo. Iam gone.” There was a noise of 
wind in the lodge, and there was a little dust from the ground which 
went up to the opening on the top of the lodge and with it the man 
disappeared. 
After that the boy went to the timber, and sometimes beyond the 
timber, to hunt. Every day the boy killed three or four buffalo and 
sometimes three or four deer, so that the women had all they could do to 
tan the buffalo and deer hides, and to jerk and dry the meat. They 
made parfleches from the buffalo hides and in them they put the dried 
meat. When the women had many buffalo hides they agreed that they 
' should make a tipi, for the grass-house was getting old and was not fit to 
live in. They scraped the hair from the hides, and made a fine large 
tipi. Then they made beautiful buckskin dresses. 
In the spring while the boy was out hunting he met Ready-to-Give. 
They went home together. Ready-to-Give told the women that they 
should go into the bottom lands and clean them up; that he had brought 
corn and squash seeds and beans for them; that they must put them into 
the ground. He gave the white corn to his wife to plant, and the 
yellow corn he gave to her mother; the red corn and squash seeds he 
gave to his wife’s sister, and the dark corn and the beans to the old 
woman. Then Ready-to-Give sat down and talked to the boy. He told 
the boy that he must make a bundle. He said: “‘ You must carry home 
fire sticks and place them in the bundle. Then you must take some 
flint and place it in the bundle. When you have gathered the white 
corn you must place some in the bundle, for the white corn you shall 
always call ‘Mother.’ Then you must place a hawk skin in the bundle, 
for the hawk represents a great warrior. Next, you must gather some 
sweet grass, braid it, and put several strings into the bundle. This 
bundle shall be known as the ‘Ready-to-Give bundle.” When you killa 
buffalo bull in the winter time, place tobacco in its nostrils, and also place 
some at the root of the ears and upon the top of the head. Place this 
tobacco upon the head of the buffalo bull as an offering to the gods in 
the heavens. The gods will notice that an offering of tobacco has been 
