180 TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
told him to take the lead and that they would follow. The man was sus- 
picious of the spotted calves, and so he spoke to his brother, the flint, 
and asked him to help turn him into stone, as he thought the spotted 
calves were going to try to kick him to death. The man got into his sled, 
and the spotted calves followed him down the hill. They kicked him in 
every way, but they could not hurt him or even make a mark on his flesh. 
When they reached the foot of the hill, the man said: ‘‘Now it is my 
turn. You take the lead and I will follow.’”’ Then the man asked of the 
spotted calves why there were so many human skeletons at the bottom 
of the hill. They did not answer, but he knew that they were the bones 
of the people whom they had killed. They went up the hill again, and 
the calves got into their sleds and started down first. The man followed, 
and whenever he was close enough he would reach out and kick one of the 
calves. Whenever he kicked one it fell from the sled and was killed. 
By the time the man reached the foot of the hill he had killed all. He 
went to the village and told the people that he had killed the seven spot- 
ted calves. Some of the men went and skinned the spotted calves, 
and brought them to the village,so that the people knew that the spotted 
calves were no longer living, but that the man had killed them. 
Several days afterwards the man was told that there was a certain 
being in the west who ate so much that nothing was left for the people, 
but if that being were killed or removed the people would then have 
plenty toeat. This man went to the placeand when he arrived there he 
found a Buffalo bull standing upon a hill. When the Buffalo bull saw 
the man it grunted, rolled, and groaned. Then it hooked the earth; 
dug up pieces of earth with its horns. It ran towards the man, but the 
man had turned into stone. When the poor bull tried to hook him it 
only broke its horns on the hard stone. The man killed the Buffalo with 
his arrows. No sooner had he killed it than he found out that the bull 
was chief of all the Buffalo. He was frightened and went home. He told 
the people that he had killed the buffalo, and for them to make haste and 
prepare arrows, for they must try to kill some of the Buffalo. The man’s 
father became frightened and said: ‘‘My son, what shall our people do to 
be saved? You have killed the chief of all the Buffalo. They will now 
come and try to kill us.”’ The man went to work and took stones from 
the hillsides and placed them around the village, about three feet apart; 
then he told the people to stay inside. The stones grew and made a 
high wall around the village, with many openings, through which the peo- 
ple could shoot their arrows. 
All at once the people saw a cloud of dust in the west reaching up to 
the sky. They then knew that the buffalo were coming. The buffalo — 

