THE BUFFALO WIFE AND THE JAVELIN GAME. 99 
Buffalo. The Buffalo jumped around and shook their shaggy heads, 
each looking at the other’s feathers, until they finally locked horns. 
The man, the Buffalo cow, and the boy were told to go and enter 
the village of the Buffalo. ‘They went and entered and drove off 
Buffalo, but as the man did not have enough feathers to go around, the 
Buffalo became mad. Some said, “We can not kill him, for he has 
not enough.” But others said, “We must kill him, for he burned 
our messenger.” Some said, “We can not kill him, for the messenger 
did wrong by turning to an old woman and sticking onto the young 
man.” The Buffalo were angry. They told the woman to tell the 
man to sit upon the hill until it was decided what should be done 
with him. The young man went upon the hill, took from his buffalo 
belt a flint stone knife and stuck it in the ground. As he did so he 
called upon the gods in the ground to form stone around where he 
sat. The young man seemed to know what was coming. 
The calf soon came and told the man that the Buffalo intended 
to kill him, for the people had burned his mother. The calf told him 
that there were Buffalo who took his part, but as they were few in 
number they could do nothing; that the woman had done wrong by 
turning into an old woman and causing him trouble, but this story 
was of no avail, for the Buffalo were determined to kill the young 
man. ‘The man took his seat upon the hill as he was requested. The 
calf said: ‘Father, I am to run a race with three other calves. I have 
a friend here who says that he will help me.” ‘The man looked at 
Yellow-Calf standing by his son. He knew Yellow-Calf was a won- 
derful calf, that was liked and loved by all of the Buffalo. So the 
man knew that the calf was safe. The calves went far away, and 
ran. ‘The two calves beat the others. The Buffalo were furious, 
hooking the ground here and there. Again the Buffalo gathered in 
council and it was decided that the man should hunt his wife. There 
were four other Buffalo cows placed with the boy’s mother, who 
looked like them all. The boy placed a burr upon his mother’s head, 
so that his father would know her. The man passing the Buffalo 
knew the woman cow and picked her out. 
The Buffalo bulls decided to kill the man by rushing upon him 
where he sat and stamping him to death. If not, then they were to 
hook him. The boy went to his father and told him what was to 
happen. He took a downy feather and placed it in his father’s hair. 
The Buffalo came and stamped about the man, around whose head 
waved the downy feather. Four times the Buffalo rushed upon the 
