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said he did not care, and took the vessel from the girl’s hand and drank 
from it. The girl went home and told her husband what the Stone-Man 
had done. The boy said: ‘‘I know that he is my enemy. He is going 
to try to starve all of us. I will go after him and see what I can do. I 
may kill him and I may not. He is a wonderful man. If he has animal 
power I will get the better of him.”’ 
The boy took his bow and arrows for the first time since his marriage. 
He went among the hills, and there sat the Stone-Man. As Burnt-Belly 
went near the Stone-Man he said: ‘‘My son, do not try to harm me.” 
The boy took an arrow, put it upon the string, and shot at Stone-Man, but 
the arrow flew back; and every time the boy shot at the Stone-Man his 
arrow flew back. The boy went home. The animal power seemed to go 
from him and he was sad. Stone-Man also was sad. At last he made 
up his mind to live among the people. He had his tipi taken down, 
and packed up his ponies, and then he went west with his wife. He trav- 
eled far until he came to a hilly country where there were many stones. 
He found a round place where hot water bubbled up, and he lay down 
near this to rest. By his power he made the buffalo go west, so that the 
people could not get any meat. Heand his wife went to work and made an 
earth-lodge. When the lodge was completed, he went out and brought 
into it a fine stone that he had found upon the hills. This stone he placed 
at the west, inside of the lodge. He went out every day, killed buf- 
falo, and brought home the meat, and the woman jerked it and dried it. 
Out of the skins they made robes and parfleches, and the woman placed 
the dried meat in the parfleches, and tied them up. After a time a girl 
baby was born to them. The mother died, so that there was left only 
Stone-Man and his daughter. 
Among the other people the wonderful boy lost his wife. She died, 
and then he went away from his people. The people became dissatis- 
fied, for there were no buffalo in the country and they were hungry. The 
chief gave orders for the young men to travel through the country and 
see if they could find any buffalo. They went in pairs into different 
parts of the country. Two young men went directly west for many days. 
At last they could get no farther, for they had nothing to eat. They 
climbed to the top of a high hill, then they lay down and looked toward 
the west, and in the distance they saw an earth-lodge. They knew by 
the earth-lodge that whoever lived there must be a Pawnee. They arose 
and went towards the lodge. When they came near they lay down and 
waited until sunset; then they went to the lodge and listened. They heard 
aman talking. They knew that he belonged to their people and so they 
went in. As they were entering the lodge the man said: ‘‘My daughter, 
