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this human being among them. He told other people about it. After 
the hunt was over, all the men in the camp went out where they had 
killed the buffalo and there they found the Wolves, and this human 
being among them. They ran their horses after the Wolves, but this 
human being ran so fast that he beat all the Wolves and escaped; 
but they knew that it was the young man. For a whole year they 
planned to catch the human Wolf, but he was so swift that they 
could not catch him. 
Now, there was a man in the tribe who had medicines for catch- 
ing the human Wolf and for taking the Wolf feeling out of him. 
This man agreed to try to catch the human Wolf. So the man went 
and selected a place in a hilly country. There was a steep bank on 
the west side, another on the south side, and another on the east 
side, and there was an opening at the north side. Having selected 
this place, the man told the people to make their village about three 
miles east from there. He ordered the women to go to this place, and 
dig a deep hole on the south side of the banks, so that the Wolves 
could not climb out. The women also cut long poles and set them 
on the top of the banks, so that, in case the Wolf did crawl up, these 
poles would be in his way. At the opening, long poles were set up, 
so that there was left only a little opening. They also strung a lot 
of willows, which was to be a doorway to close up the entrance. The 
man now ordered a certain number of young men to go and kill 
buffalo. These young men went out, and they killed the buffalo, 
brought the meat, and placed it inside of this enclosure. The Wolves 
followed them up, and then the men on horseback circled the Wolves 
and ran them into this trap, the human Wolf among them. There 
were four strong men who put on rawhide leggings, and caps with 
holes in them, so that they could see, and these four men were put 
into the trap. They ran after the Wolf man. Every time the Wolves 
ran around by the doorway the door was removed, and the Wolves 
went out. At last they had the man Wolf by himself. The entrance 
was stopped. The four men finally succeeded in catching the Wolf 
man. ‘Then they tied him and took him out. He tried to bite them, 
but the rawhide was so dry that he could not hurt them. While the 
four men were catching him the medicine-man had built a sweat-lodge. 
The hot stones were taken into the lodge quickly and the man was 
taken in there and tied. The man poured water upon the hot stones, 
and sweated the Wolf man. ‘The medicine-man kept pouring water 
on the stones, until the Wolf man begged for some water. Then the 
medicine-man gave him some medicine that he had prepared, and 
