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boy, when you get strong so that you can go and hunt, then you can kill 
calves, deer, and other game for your grandmother.’’ The boy took his 
grandmother into the lodge and showed her the calf. The boy took the 
arrow which the grandmother had made for him and said: “I shot it with 
this arrow. The arrow was sharpened and the sharp point burned so that 
it was hard.”” The grandmother was glad, and she at once skinned the 
calf, cut some of. the meat up, and boiled it. While they were eating, the 
boy said, ‘‘Grandmother, you must not go begging any more. From 
this time on we shall have meat. The people will be coming to beg meat 
from you. Give the meat to those people who were kind to you and 
those who did not urinate om our lodge.’’ Every day after that the boy 
brought a calf home, each time a little larger than the one he had brought 
home before. 
Some time after this he began to get lots of buffalo, so that he had to 
get his grandmother to help him skin them and cut up the meat so that 
they could carry it home. Every day the old woman sat in the lodge 
and jerked meat. She also made some lariat ropes from the buffalo hide. 
The ropes she stretched across the grass-lodge on the inside, and she hung 
up the meat she had jerked to dry. When a lot of this meat was dry, she 
folded it up and placed it in parfleches which she had made from the 
skins. 
One day when they were eating fresh meat, a young girl came into 
their lodge. The boy told his grandmother to give her something to eat; 
that her people had scolded her and she had come there to sleep. The 
girl ate some of the meat and she saw that the two had plenty to eat. 
She told the old woman that the people in the village were starving for 
meat; that the people in the village had hardly anything to eat. The 
old woman then took some buffalo meat from one of the parfleches and 
gave it to the girl, and told her to take the meat home and for her to eat 
the meat in the night by herself. The girl did not want to go to her 
home, but the woman begged her to go, and so she went. 
A few days afterwards the boy went out and killed a big buffalo cow. 
The old woman and the boy skinned the buffalo, cut up the meat, and 
carried it home. After they had eaten, the boy went out to the opening 
on the side of the hill and there he met the strange man. The strange man 
gave the boy moccasins, leggings, a buffalo robe, an eagle cap, and an otter- 
skin quiver filled with arrows,and a bow. The strange being told the boy 
that he must go to his grandmother and tell her to go and ask some of 
the village girls to come and live with them. The boy went to the tipi 
and stood outside. He took his new bow and one arrow, and began to 
hit the bowstring with his arrow, and sang: 
