THE MAN WHO MARRIED A BUFFALO. II3 
After the young man had found his wife the calf came to him and 
said: ‘‘To-morrow you are to hunt me. There will be many calves 
placed in line and I will be among them. You are to pass down the 
line in the rear and then in front. When you are coming near where 
I shall be I shall wink at you. While I am winking at you, you will 
notice a cockle burr right over my eye. You must touch me and say 
that Iam your son.’’ Then the calf went back to the Buffalo. The next 
day the Buffalo were gathered together and they selected about twelve 
young bull calves, all of the same size, height, and color as the boy calf. 
They were placed in a line. The man went in the rear of the calves, 
then he went in front. The calf watched and as soon as he saw his 
father coming he began to wink at his father. The father looked at him 
and right over the eye was a burr. He knew at once that this was his 
son. He touched the calf and said, ‘‘This is my son,”’ and the calf 
began to jump around, for the calf was pleased to know that his father 
had found him. 
The Buffalo then agreed that the man should be with them always. 
Several Buffalo bulls got together and they ran up towards the young 
‘man as if to hook him, but when they ran against him they met another 
bull, for the young man had turned into a Buffalo bull. Then the 
people said: ‘‘We will send a drove of Buffalo to your village, for the 
people are hungry. We want you to bring some feathers, some native 
tobacco, blue beads, and clam shells.’’ Twenty Buffalo were selected, 
and the young man, his wife, and son joined the drove and went towards 
the village. They traveled several nights and at last they came to the 
village. The twenty Buffalo squatted down in the ravine, while the 
woman, her child, and her husband turned into human beings and 
entered the village. The young man awoke his father and said: “‘ Father, 
send for my uncles, and when they come in tell them that I want eagle 
feathers, native tobacco, blue beads, and clam shells.’”’ The old man 
went out and gathered up his relatives. When they were all together 
the people said that they would go and get the things. Ina short time 
the people began to come in with the things. They gave the things 
to the young man. The young man then told the people that he 
knew that the Buffalo knew that they were starving for meat. He 
told them to go to a certain place in the morning and they would find 
the Buffalo there. He said that most of the Buffalo who had comie 
with him were sitting in a certain place, and that the people were to 
kill those Buffalo and make them holy. He said that those Buffalo 
came to receive smoke, but they knew also that they were to be offered 
as a sacrifice to Tirawa. The young man, his wife, and child disappeared. 
