108 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
ers and tobacco.’’ The people looked at the boy, and some of them 
whispered to one another, and said: ‘‘The things that he asks for are 
what the gods in the heavens like. Some god has taken pity upon him.”’ 
After the relatives had eaten the artichokes they went out and brought 
in the things the boy wanted. The boy took the things and carried 
them outside of the village, and there he met the strange being. The 
boy gave the things to the man and he was glad to get them. He then 
gave the boy the fox-skin cap with the eagle feather on the tail. He 
said: ‘‘You shall be called ‘Whipping-Feather.’ In a few days you 
will travel as I do, and you will meet me driving Buffalo. Then you 
must tell the people to kill.””. They parted, the boy going home and the 
strange man disappearing. 
Next morning the boy said to his father and mother, ‘‘Go to the 
timber and dig some artichokes.’’ The old people did not like to go, 
but as they felt the boy had some kind of power they took a bag and 
hoe and went off; and as they dug along the sunny side of a bank they 
found a rat’s path-way. They followed it until they came to timber, 
and there they found a pile of ground beans. When the parents came 
home with the beans the boy took them and placed them in his robe and 
told his father to go outside and tell the people to come and get a hand- 
ful of ground beans. The man went and the women came with their 
sacks. The beans were given out by the boy so that all the families 
received some of them. The next day the boy went out by himself. 
He was gone but a short time when he came back carrying a deer upon 
his back. He took the deer and placed it under his robe. The boy 
then told his father to tell the people to come and get a piece of the 
deer meat. The people all came and each took a piece of meat, leaving 
only the ribs. These ribs were then put into a vessel and boiled. Then 
the chiefs and leading men were invited to the boy’s tipi. After eating 
the ribs they all stayed in the tipi for several nights. The young man 
went off in the night and was gone for some time. 
When he came back he told the chief to call in the crier. When the 
crier came in the boy told him to go through the camp and tell the peo- 
ple that there were some Buffalo close to the camp. Some of the young 
men were selected to go out to see if they could discover them. The 
men went out and as they stood upon the hills they saw some Buffalo bulls. 
They ran back to the village and told the young man and he told the 
chief to tell the crier to go through the village and tell the men to get 
their ponies and surround the Buffalo. The men went out, found the 
Buffalo, surrounded them, and killed all of them. After this killing 
the young man went out again. While he was gone on the prairie he 
