I00 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
must feed them and then call the buffalo, for the people were now to 
kill them. 
They asked the boy, on entering, if he had seen the Buffalo sitting 
in the water. They told him to return to the place and see the Buffalo 
again and it would speak to him. The gods began to sing, and after 
singing they said: ‘‘My son, it is now time for you to return to your 
people. The North-Wind will take you back. We now give you a 
buffalo robe, and in all that you want to do for the benefit of the people 
use the robe.”’ The young man put the robe on his back and went out. 
He was told to put the seeds and things in the robe for the people. When 
he reached his clothes he took them up and started eastward. After 
he was gone a little way the North-Wind came and said, ‘‘We must go 
to a certain place.’’ They went to a certain place. The wind then 
seemed to cover the boy up and they disappeared. The wind had told 
the boy to hold his things in his hands as he had done before. 
After a while the boy was dropped into the water where the horizon 
touched the ground. It was like a fog. The water came up to his arms; 
he waded through the fog and finally reached the bank. Then the Wind 
said, ‘‘We must go now to the Buffalo.”” The boy dressed and went to 
the Buffalo. He threw down some feathers and asked the Buffalo to 
come up. He came up and stood on the bank, and said, ‘“Grandchild, 
have you been to the place where the gods dwell?’”’ The boy said, “I 
have.”’ He told the Buffalo that he had the robe which was given to 
him by the people above and that the seeds were also given him. When 
the Buffalo saw the robe it was satisfied and said: ‘‘You have now all 
the power from me which I possess and the Buffalo people will go to your 
people. I now must return to my place.’’ The boy put a few feathers 
again on the head of the buffalo and went on. The Wind then said to the 
boy: ‘‘We must go to the mound of the eagles. You must get all the 
feathers that you can.” They got to the mound. The boy gathered 
many feathers, made a bundle of them, and then they went on. 
They did not go to the different villages which the boy had visited, 
but the Wind took the boy on and at last they were seated on the side 
of the hill at night time. The Wind then told the boy to go into the 
village and to bring him blue beads, eagle feathers, paint, sweet grass, 
and native tobacco. The boy started to the village, but when he came 
near to it he smelt the people and could not stand it. He ran back to 
where the Wind was. There he remained with the Wind all night. 
The next day when the people went outside of the village they saw foot- 
prints of buffalo. They did not know what to make of it. The next 
night the boy attempted to enter the village again, and when he came 
