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met the strange being driving Buffalo. The boy and the strange being 
drove the Buffalo towards the camp. The boy then came to the vil- 
lage. He told the people that there were some bulls for them to kill 
again. The men went out and killed the Buffalo bulls. The third time 
the young man went out, and he again found the strange being driving 
the Buffalo. The young man went home and told the people that there 
were many Buffalo cows upon the hills. The men went out and there in 
a valley they found the Buffalo cows, which they surrounded and killed. 
The fourth time the young man went away and found the strange being 
driving Buffalo. The young man went home and this time he told the 
people to go and find the buffalo. This time the people found all kinds 
of Buffalo—bulls, cows, and calves. The people killed many and still 
there were many left. The Buffalo then scattered over the country. 
The young man married. One day he called the people together 
and told them that the wonderful being had given power for him to be 
born; that when he was born the being watched over him; that at a cer- 
tain age the being had driven all the Buffalo away; that the being had 
made him go a long distance to the place where he was; and that the 
being had helped him get the Buffalo. So the boy said, ‘‘I shall now go 
away to the being who is North-Wind.’”’ The boy went off and never 
returned. 
28. THE MAN WHO MARRIED A BUFFALO." 
The people went on a hunt at one time and they found many Buffalo. 
Among the people on the hunt was a young man who did not like the 
women. He had several chances to marry some of the young girls, but 
he rejected them. One day the people went out to surround the Buf- 
falo. This young man went with them. When the people ran after the 
Buffalo there was a bunch of about five Buffalo cows which broke away 
from the people, and the young man who disliked women ran after this 
bunch of cows. He ran these Buffalo into a mud-hole and one of the 
young cows got fast in the mud. The young man saw the Buffalo fast 
in the mud, so he jumped off from his pony, went into the mud, and lay 
with the cow. The young man went home and left the cow in the mud. 
After a long time the cow worked herself out from the mud and went 
away to the other Buffalo. It was then some time early in the spring. 
_ Early the next spring the cows in the Buffalo herd began to have 
young calves. Among those who were to have calves was the cow 
1Told by White-Horse, Pitahauirat. This is a variant of a story in which a 
man marries a Buffalo, has offspring, etc. The object of the story is to teach 
that human beings are related to the Buffalo, and it is believed that by relating 
the story it will cause the buffalo to come and offer themselves to be slaughtered. 
