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went through the ring and the boy said: ‘‘Get your knife, grandfather, 
and skin the buffalo.”” When the old man looked at the place where the 
ring had been, there was a dead buffalo. The old man gave a grunt of 
satisfaction and began toskin the buffalo. He cut up the meat while 
the old woman laid the bones around the fire to roast. 
They did not throw any of the meat away, for they were poor and 
hungry and had not had any meat for a long time. When the meat was 
gone, the boy asked the old woman to roll the ring, and he shot and killed 
another buffalo, and he continued to kill a buffalo every day, so that they 
had more meat than they needed. The old people recognized that the 
boy was wonderful, but none of the other people in the village paid any 
attention to him, for he continued to run about through the timber 
ragged and dirty. No one recognized him for the Animal-Boy who had 
disappeared some time before, but he was the same boy. When he had 
_ disappeared, the animals took him to their lodge and gave him great 
powers. Then he returned to the people as a poor boy. 
Among the Kitkehahki was a man who had gone very far into the west, 
where he found a man of stone. This man of stone spoke to him and 
said: “‘You shall be called Stone-Man. You shall be a great warrior; 
arrows will not go through you.”’ The man returned to his people, and 
he treated them so badly that they tried to kill him, but they could not. 
The people were hungry, for there was a certain animal that scared away 
the buffalo by its howling. This animal was known as the red fox. The 
chief gave out orders for his people to try and kill this fox. They tried 
in every way to kill it, or catch it, but they could not. The chief told 
the crier to go through the village and tell the men of the village that 
whoever would kill the red fox should marry his oldest daughter. The 
crier went through the village telling the people what the chief had said. 
The little boy at the old woman’s, who was now called Belly-Boy, said: 
‘‘Grandmother, I shall kill the red fox and I shall marry the chief's 
daughter.’’ The old woman nearly cried. She laid her hands on the boy’s 
head and said: ‘‘My poor boy thinks he is going to kill the red fox.” 
The boy prepared himself and went out. He wandered over the prairie 
until he came to some timber. There he found some men fixing tim- 
ber to trap the red fox. Everywhere he went he found men fixing some 
kind of trap to catch the fox. Burnt-Belly went home, and said: 
‘‘Grandmother, all the men are out fixing their traps to catch the red fox. 
Crow-Feathers is out and I know he is going to take my fox away again. 
I will make my trap near our place, so we can watch it. Go with me, 
grandmother, and cut a long elm pole. Then put a sinew string at the 
small end. Dig a hole and set the pole in it. Then make a kind of hole 
