THE WONDERFUL BOY. IOI 
near he could not go farther. He returned to where the Wind sat. The 
next morning the people saw the footprints of the buffalo close to their 
village. They followed the track, but soon lost it. The third night he 
tried again, but did not enter. The fourth night he went into the vil- 
lage and entered the lodge of his father. He went to his sister and said: 
“Sister, I am now here. Do not make any noise. Before you make 
fire waken up my father and tell him to go through the village and bring 
me blue beads, feathers, paint, sweet grass, and native tobacco.” The 
father got up, went through the village, and brought all the things. The 
sister gave them to the brother and the boy said: ‘‘Sister, I will return. 
Watch.’ He took the things and gave them to the Wind. The Wind 
sent the boy back to his people. 
As he entered the lodge he called for his sister, told her to make a 
fire, and she did so. When the father saw the boy he jumped out of 
bed and was about to put his arms around him. The boy stopped him 
-_ and said: ‘‘Do not touch me yet. I know that my people are starv- 
ing. They want something to eat. Go through the village and let them 
know that I have come back.’’ The man went out and told the people 
that his son had come back. When the people heard it they went 
out and ran to the lodge of the young man. He told them that he 
had brought some things for them from the west. Then he told them 
that he knew that they were hungry and that he had hastened to come 
and feed them. He placed the robe in the north and then sat down. 
He said: ‘‘Now, my people, come to me one at a time and I will give 
you meat. You must take the meat home and eatit.’’ The boy placed 
his hand under the robe and every time he took out his hands he had 
meat. The next day the people talked about it. At night he told the 
people again to come and get meat. The third and the fourth nights 
he gave them meat. On the fifth night he told the chiefs to send scouts 
to the hills in the northwest and there they would see buffalo. The 
scouts were sent out and as soon as they got on top of the hills they 
began to throw up their robes, whichis a sign of good news. The peo- 
ple ran with excitement through the village. They saw the men com- 
ing down from the hill. They came into the village and said that there 
were many buffalo on the other side of the hills. 
For several years there had not been a sign of buffalo in the surround- 
ing country and now there were plenty nearby. The people went out 
and killed the buffalo. They took some of the buffalo to the lodge of 
the young man. There he sang the songs which he had heard in the 
lodge above. The people killed the buffalo four times. Then he told 
them that they must hunt for the buffalo themselves. 
