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The next morning the woman got her meat and things ready to 
go to her garden again, and the man got ready to go hunting. The 
woman went first to her garden. The man went afterwards, in a differ- 
ent direction. After a while he circled around to his wife’s garden. He 
got to the garden and lay down. He waited for the strange man to 
come. The woman sat around near her garden, doing nothing, for 
there was nothing to do; she had already got through with her field. 
The man looked up and again he saw the strange man come from the 
timber and begin ito talk to his wife. They sat around until the sun 
was high. They again ate meat together, and after they had eaten, 
the strange man again lay with the woman. While they were lying 
together, the woman’s husband came up from behind them, took an 
arrow, put it in the bow-string and pulled it. He shot the man. The 
man made a big groan, got on his feet, and ran through the timber. 
When the woman got up, her husband got a stick and clubbed 
her. The woman said: “My husband, you should first have found out 
who that man was who was with me, before you shot him.”’ Her hus- 
band said that he did not care who he was. The woman said that he 
was a Bear, and that was the reason she let him lie with her, for she 
was afraid of him. She said that the Bear told her that if anybody 
did anything to him while he was with her he would get all his people 
together and kill everybody in the Arikara camp. The man said he 
did not care. 
About three days afterwards the people saw what seemed to be 
buffalo in large droves, coming from the hills. When they came near 
the village the people found out that they were Bears instead of buffalo. 
The young man who had shot the Bear in the garden said to the peo- 
ple, “The Bears are coming to kill us, for I shot the Bear.” The Bears 
soon reached the camp and tore the people to pieces, as many as they 
got hold of; but some of the people, who hid in their cellars, were 
saved. The Bears did not stop until they had killed the man who had 
shot the Bear. 
‘45. THE WIFE WHO MARRIED AN ELK.* 
There was a man who went hunting with his wife. They were 
alone. Whenever the man was out hunting the woman would stay at 
the lodge and take care of all the things that the man had brought in, 
and she would also jerk meat. There she stayed, while her husband 
went out day after day. One time when her husband was gone a man 
*Told by Standing-Bull. 
