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buffalo.”” While they were talking, Burnt-Belly came up. ‘‘ Look,” 
said he, ‘‘ yonder in the valley you will see buffalo. Surround them and 
kill them.’’ The men looked in the valley and there they saw the 
buffalo. 
The chief divided the men so that some went on the west side andsome 
went on the north side and some went on the south side and the others 
stayed where they were. As soon as the robe was thrown up in the air, 
the men rode towards the buffalo. The buffalo rose and ran, but the 
people came from all sides, so that the buffalo ran around ina circle, so 
that all, even those who had poor horses, got a chance to kill a buffalo. 
Crow-Feathers was among them. He found one buffalo, and he chased it 
around until at last he wounded it. Itwas thennearly dark. Finally he 
succeeded in killing the buffalo, and he found that it was a poor, thin 
bull, unfit toeat. Nevertheless, he was proud of his success. He skinned 
-it and took the meat home. He felt very proud, for he thought that he 
had killed a buffalo, and that Burnt-Belly, being afoot, would not kill 
any. As soon as the people surrounded the buffalo, Burnt-Belly ran, 
and when he came to a fat cow he pulled its beard and then went on. 
From the sides of some he pulled hairs, and the hairs became hearts. 
From the beards of others he pulled hairs, and they became tongues. He 
came to one cow that was very fat. From its tail he pulled some hair 
and these became the whole buffalo. 
The boy was first to get home. He told his wife to fix a place for him 
to put the meat. Branches of trees were spread out and the boy began 
to reach from under his robe and to take out meat, hearts, and tongues, 
and place them upon the branches. When he had taken out all, there 
was a large pile of very fine fat meat. In the night came Crow-Feathers. 
He began to take the meat off from his pony’s back. As he entered the 
lodge he saw the boy’s fine meat, and he asked the boy’s wife where it 
came from. She said that her husband had brought it. ‘‘But,”’. said 
Crow-Feathers, ‘“‘how did he bring it?”’ His wife told him that the boy 
brought it in his robe. After this, Crow-Feathers tried to kill the boy, 
but the animals took care of him, and one morning Crow-Feathers was 
found dead in his bed. 
The people then knew that the boy had wonderful powers, except one 
man, who was the Stone-Man. One day the girl went out to the creek for 
water, and on her return she found the Stone-Man waiting for her. She 
tried to pass him, but he would notlet her pass. Stone-Man said: “‘If 
you will give me a drink from your bucket I will let you pass.” ‘“‘No,”’ 
said the girl, ‘‘I can not let you drink from my bucket, for my husband 
will find it out.’’ She said she would tell her husband, but Stone-Man 
