104 TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
the Wolf man began to vomit. The Wolf man vomited hairs of Wolves, 
white clay, also froth and raw meat. All this time the people were 
rubbing wild sage upon his body, especially upon his knees. The 
Wolf man became exhausted and finally said, “I feel better now.” 
The medicine-man continued to give him medicine until the Wolf 
man could vomit no more. They then untied him and took ‘him into 
his lodge, and he finally recovered. 
The Wolf man stayed in bed all night and the next day. Then, in 
the night, he sent for his father. He told his father that he wanted 
him to build a tipi, and that towards evening he wanted him to go 
through the village and invite the bravest men in the tribe to come to 
his, the father’s, tipi—not to the tipi he had built for the boy. 
Now, the seven girls who had put the boy into the hole were in- 
vited. “They were told to dress up in their fine clothes, and as he had 
promised to marry them he wanted them to come to his tipi that they 
had put up for him. These girls came to the tipi, and the young man 
gave them seats. The young man left the lodge, and told his father 
to place the brave men around the lodge; that he was going out, and 
as soon as he should come back the guards were to leave their sta- 
tions. The boy went to the north, and cried, “Father, my father, come 
and help me!” The Wolves came up, and said: “We will help you. 
What is it you want?” The boy said: “The girls who were the cause 
of my being with the Wolves are in my tipi. I want you to devour 
them.” ‘The Wolves promised that they would. Then the boy went 
to the west, among the cedars, and there he cried: ‘Father Bear, make 
haste. I have something for you to eat.” The Bear came, and said, 
“My son, what is it?” The boy said: “The girls who put me into the 
hole are now in my tipi. I want you to go with your friends and devour 
them.” The Bear said: “We will do this gladly; we will come.” The 
boy went back to the village, and stood a little distance from his tipi. 
Soon the Wolves came on his left, and the Bears came from behind. 
He led them up to his tipi. He told the Wolves to stand on the north 
side, and the Bears to stand on the west and south side. After this 
was done, the young man went into the tipi, and said: “Girls, you put 
me into a hole, and you left me there to die. The Wolves took me out, 
and I was with the Wolves for some time. Those same Wolves are 
now to eat you up.” The girls begged for mercy, but there was no 
mercy shown them. Each girl tried to crawl out from where she was 
sitting, but the Wolves ate them. 
At the same time the old man, the boy’s father, went through the 
village, telling the people that the seven girls were being devoured by 
