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high hill. Instead of climbing the hill he stopped and began to play 
with his bow and arrows at the bottom. The boy went to sleep. In 
his sleep he found himself under the ground with a fine-looking young 
man. This young man said: ‘I know that you are very poor. I 
have come to you to tell you that hereafter, every day, we, the Buffalo 
people, are to send youa Buffalo calf. When we think it is time to send 
you larger ones we will send them.’’ Then this man spoke again and 
said: ‘‘I am the son of the Buffalo chief. His home is beyond the vil- 
lage where you see those red mountains. There is another opening there, 
and when the time comes we will make the Buffalo come out from the 
side of those mountains so that the people can kill them. Return now 
to your grandmother and to-morrow come back to this place, so that I 
can show you the opening about which I told you.”’ 
The boy went to his grandmother’s lodge and did not eat anything 
_ for some time. He was thinking of what the strange man had told him. 
The next morning the boy arose and without eating anything he took 
his bow and arrows and went out to the place where he had been the day 
before. There he met the strange man he had seen. This man took 
him farther on until they came to the foot of the hill. On the side of 
the hill was a steep bank. The strange man said: ‘‘ You must get behind 
this little knoll and you must watch closely, for there is to be a little 
calf come out from this bank. Where you see this steep bank, although 
it is covered, there is really an opening where the Buffalo can come out.” 
The strange man told the boy that he must not look at the bank, but 
that he must be behind it so that he would not know just how the Buffalo 
came out. ? 
They hid behind the knoll and after a while the boy heard some one 
coming. Then he heard the noise of hoofs rattling. After a while the 
strange man touched the boy. The boy looked up and there he saw a 
little calf standing looking at him. The strange man touched him and said: 
“Shoot it; shoot it, and be quick about it.”’ The boy shot the calf with 
the arrow in the side and the arrow passed through the calf and came out 
on the other side. The calf gave one jump, staggered, bled in the mouth, 
fell over, and died. The boy was so glad that he jumped over where he 
had killed the calf, and when he was sure that he had killed it he turned 
around to see where the strange man was, but he had disappeared. The 
boy took the little calf home and placed it in the lodge. 
| Some time after that the old woman came, and the boy said: ‘‘Grand- 
mother, I killed a little calf. I have it in the lodge.’’ The old woman 
cried out and went to her grandson, passed her hands over his head, and 
said: ‘‘My poor grandson tells me that he has killed a calf. My poor 
