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down and was very unmanageable. After a while Dragging-the-Stone 
felt something coming up from the back of the horse. He kept on 
riding until the object went into his body; then he jumped off and exam- 
ined it and found that it was the horse’s penis. Dragging-the-Stone 
then took his bow and arrows and shot the horse and killed it. The 
horse was the property of the old woman, and when the old woman 
wanted to be with men, she rode upon this horse. Dragging-the-Stone 
went. on, and he came to a man who had killed a buffalo. The man who 
killed the buffalo came up and said: ‘‘ Dragging-the-Stone, I will give you 
this buffalo.’’ Dragging-the-Stone thanked the man for the buffalo. 
After a while other people came, and they began to skin this buffalo. 
While they were skinning they saw the giant coming. When he came 
he said: ‘‘People, you may go away from this buffalo. This is my 
buffalo and I am going to have the meat.’’ The people then looked. 
towards Dragging-the-Stone to see what he would do. Dragging-the- 
Stone told the people to continue skinning the buffalo and not to listen 
to. the giant. After a while the giant said: ‘“‘I am going to have 
the meat of this buffalo.’’ Dragging-the-Stone said: ‘‘You are not. 
This buffalo is mine.’”’ They began to quarrel and the giant became 
mad. Dragging-the-Stone became mad and took his bow out from 
his quiver and began to hit the giant. The giant then turned around 
and blew his breath upon Dragging-the-Stone and blew him a long 
way off. Coyote came and continued to fight the giant until the 
giant became scared and went away. Then Dragging-the-Stone felt 
very proud that he had conquered the giant. The people talked about 
him as they went home. Not only the giant became scared, but the 
chief and the braves were all also scared. When Dragging-the-Stone 
reached the village the old Coyote woman said: ‘‘Old man, that man 
Dragging-the-Stone has sense. He walks home and leaves my horse 
at some grassy place where he can pick grass.’’ When Dragging-the- 
Stone arrived at the lodge the old woman asked where the horse was, 
and he said: ‘“‘I killed him. He tried to act with me as he did with you 
and I shot him with my bow and arrows.” 
The people all became afraid of Dragging-the-Stone. The chief 
gathered all his men. They were going to have a big feast and eat. 
roast ribs. They invited Dragging-the-Stone. The people said: ‘‘We 
want Dragging-the-Stone to be our chief.’’ When the people were all 
together, Dragging-the-Stone came in and they gave him a prominent 
seat. Then the chief spoke and said: ‘‘ Dragging-the-Stone, I have pre- 
pared a lot of meat, for we are to have a feast."” Then Dragging-the- 
Stone said: ‘‘I do not eat ribs. I eat something else. If the chief 
