106 TRADITIONS OF THE ARIKARA. 
Now came the Turtle, who was mad because the Beaver fooled 
_ the people. So he called for his followers, and they gathered around 
him and sang: 
“Let me stand where my fathers stood. 
Let a flood pour forth from my throat! 
I am doing something wonderful. 
Let all people look!” 
So the people looked. The Turtle took his knife and stuck it close 
to ‘his left collar-bone. Water began to pour forth from the cut, until 
there was water all over the lodge. Then the people began to. get 
scared. The errand man was requested to beg the Turtle to stop pour- 
ing forth water in the lodge. The errand man begged the Turtle and 
the Turtle inhaled and drew all the water back into himself. The peo- 
ple all took their places again. Stawi, a Witch-Woman, came, and said: 
“Gun given me by old medicine-men. 
Gun given me by old medicine-men. 
Gun given me by old medicine-men.” 
The old woman had a buffalo robe over her shoulders, and she 
held in her hands a mysterious looking thing dotted with spots of 
- white clay and painted in black. At the top of it were red feathers. 
The object was a gun, a thing to kill with, to shoot medicine. Now, at 
this time, the old woman wanted to show the power of this mysterious 
object. She ran around the lodge and then placed the object upon the 
ground. She ran to it. She wrestled with it. She covered it with 
her robe. Now she lifted it. She ran around, and all at once she began 
to groan—as if in pain. At last she called for help, for she was in 
misery. ‘The people went to her, and there they found the old woman 
in travail. She was cared for, and she gave birth to a child, who was 
to become a great medicine-man among the people and a leader in the 
medicine dance. The medicine-animals rejoiced and sang their songs 
again with joy. 
32. THE VILLAGE-BOY AND THE WOLF POWER.* 
In olden times there was a village, and in this village was a man 
who had five children—four girls and a boy. In the dances, the girls 
would go out and take part, although the boy never went on the war- 
*Told by Yellow-Bear. 
