THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A STAR. © 53 
was a Star; that the woman had requested her husband to get sinews 
for her; that this woman had given the sinews to an old woman that 
she might make a sinew string; that the Star had forgotten to get the 
two sinews under the shoulders of the buffalo, and for that reason the 
string had proved too short to reach the ground; that the Star had 
missed his wife and child; that he had hunted and had found a hole in 
the ground; that the Star had picked up a stone and had sent it down 
on the string to kill the woman, telling it to save the child; that the 
child had stayed around its mother until she had decayed; that the 
child had gone to the old woman’s lodge and gone into her field; that 
the old woman had made bow and arrows and a shinny ball and stick, 
had placed them in the field, so that she might find out whether the 
child was a boy or a girl; that the boy had come and picked up the bow 
and arrows and had gone to shoot at the squash in the field; that the 
old woman had caught the boy and had taken ‘him home and made him 
her grandson, when he became known through the country as “Old- - 
Woman’s-Grandson ;” that through the boy’s powers he had scattered 
the blackbirds through the earth; that the mountain lions were also 
scattered through the earth; that the bears were scattered through the 
earth; that even the water-serpent had been killed and sent back to the 
lake ; that the serpent had been the boy’s grandfather ; that the boy had 
killed the old woman’s husband, who was really his grandfather; that 
the boy had visited the four wonderful men; that the four wonderful 
men had found a fcetus in a buffalo cow; that they had tried to put it 
next to him to scare him; that the boy had climbed the tree and they 
had placed the foetus at the forks of the tree, so that he could not climb 
down; that the boy had offered his grandmother to the four wonderful 
men to get the men to take away the foetus and let him down the tree; 
that the boy had taken the wonderful bow and arrows from the four 
wonderful men; that these men had married the old woman; that after- 
wards the boy was given a flute by his grandmother, which was done 
that he might take revenge upon the four wonderful men; that he had 
killed the four wonderful men, so they would be no longer on the earth; 
that now Old-Woman’s-Grandson had come to the people who were 
sitting in a den trying to catch eagles; that he now sat before them, 
sitting on a rock; that he was given a long gut ito eat, but that he had 
found out that it was a Snake; that he had thrown it in the fire and 
burned it. “This,” said the leader, “ends our story. Old-Woman’s- 
Grandson will now please tell us a story.” 
The boy then began to tell about himself, just as the Snake had told 
‘it, following it up. “Now,” said the boy, “as the people in the den were 
sitting around, listening to Old-Woman’s-Grandson, there came a 
