IIo TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
which had had connection with aman. She had a little bull-calf. When 
the calf grew up it noticed other cows went with their husbands and the 
calves followed their fathers around. The calf asked the mother where 
his father was. The-mother did not want to tell the calf, but he begged 
so hard that finally the mother said: ‘‘ Your father is far away and can 
not see you.’”’ The calf began to cry, for he wanted to see his father, so 
the mother said: ‘‘We will go and see your father.’”’ They started and 
went towards the east. For many days they went east until at last 
they came to the village of the people. They stopped in a ravine. 
There the Buffalo cow turned herself into a woman and she turned the 
calf into a young boy. The woman had a fine buffalo robe over her and 
was a fine-looking woman. The boy had a calf robe with hoofs on it 
over him. The woman and the boy walked to the lodge of the man and 
there they sat down near the entrance. It was night. A woman came 
out and saw the woman and the child. This woman went to them and 
said: ‘‘Woman, what do you want? Do you want to see my brother?” 
for this woman was the sister of the young man. The Buffalo woman 
said: ‘‘Yes; I want to see the young man.’’ The woman went into the 
lodge and said: ‘‘Brother, there is a woman outside who wishes to 
see you.’ The young man went out and there sata woman. Her hair 
was not braided and he knew at once that she was not one of the tribe. 
The young man spoke to the woman and said: ‘‘Woman, do you want to 
see me?’’ The woman said: ‘‘Yes; I want to see you, for this boy is your 
son and I have brought him to you, for he wants to see you.”’ The 
young man stood still and studied, for he had never been with any woman. 
The young man said: ‘‘ Woman, I know no woman yet; you must be mis- 
taken.’’ But the woman said: ‘‘This boy is your son. Think and 
you will find out that you lay with me, and this is your son.” The 
young man studied, but could not remember. The woman then said: 
‘‘Do you not remember a long time ago, when you ran after Buffalo I 
jumped into a mud-hole? You came and lay with me.” The boy then 
stooped down and took up the boy in his arms and said: ‘‘My son, 
my wife, I remember. Come, go with me into the lodge and see my 
father and mother and my sisters.”’ The young man led the way into 
the lodge and said: ‘‘Father, mother, and sisters, this is my son and this 
woman is my wife.” 
When the old people saw the woman and child they knew that the 
woman and the boy were not human beings, and they would not touch 
the woman, but the boy they caught and caressed. The woman re- 
mained inside of the inclosed bed, for she did not want people to see her. 
Four days after this she began to be like other people. Then she told 
