HANDSOME-BOY AND AFTER~BIRTH BOY. 143 
As soon as it was dark the girl went to the place where she had prom- 
ised to be and after a while the boy met her there. Then they traveled 
towards the south until they came to a big, wide stream of water heavily 
timbered on both sides. There they built a little grass-house. The boy 
would go out every day and kill game, so that they had plenty of meat. 
They were all alone, for the people were now far away. 
The young boy had wonderful ways about him. When he came upon 
some wild animals or strange beings he got away from them and went 
back to where his wife was. For sometime they lived together in the 
grass-lodge. At last the man told his wife that he thought it was time for 
them to build a small earth-lodge, so that he could make a strong 
entrance and fix it so as to cover the doorway at night and to prevent 
wild animals coming in. They began to build a small earth-lodge. At 
last the lodge was completed. 
The man went hunting one day. He found a big buffalo bull and 
- killed it. He took off the hide and took it home with him. The hide 
was stretched upon the ground and when it was dry it was very hard. 
This was then used to close up the entrance at night. For many years 
these people lived together here, and after a while the woman began to 
show signs of pregnancy. The manstayed close to the lodge and hunted. 
He did not go very far, for he wanted to be near to his wife. 
One day the woman told the man that she would like to have some 
milk bags to roast on hot coals. She told him to try to kill a buffalo 
with a fresh bag. The boy went out and he could not find any buffalo 
near. He went far away over the hills and at last he found a herd of buf- 
falo. He killed one of the cows, took the bag and some of the meat, and 
carried ittohishome. When he entered the lodge he found that his wife 
was confined and was about to give birth. He threw the meat down 
upon the ground and ran into the lodge. He waited on his wife and 
after a while she gave birth to the child and itwas a boy. Then the man 
tcok the after-birth, carried it out from the lodge, went into the timber, 
and came to a big elm tree. He dug in the dirt under the side of the 
tree and placed the after-birth there, and then went home. 
Every morning after the man and the woman had eaten they would 
place some meat upon sticks which were placed near the fireplace so that 
the meat would be roasting. Thechildgrewup. The man was very proud 
of it. The child began to crawl around. After awhile it began to stand 
up and to walk. The child now had teeth and could eat meat. After 
a while the child got so that it played around inside of the lodge, and 
after a while it went out of the lodge and played. One day the man 
placed some meat around the fireplace upon the sticks. Then he went 
