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and when he went out hunting he sometimes brought home buffalo meat, 
deer meat, or any other things that he could kill. Some time afterwards 
the woman told her husband that she was pregnant. Once upon a time 
when this man was going out hunting he told his wife to fix up a piece 
of meat to cook by the fire; that while he was gone some one would 
come and eat the meat. He told her not to look at him when the per- 
son should come in; that when she should hear him coming she should 
get into her bed and cover herself up; that she would have to do this 
every day while he went out hunting. That morning, after the woman 
had done as she had been told, her husband went out on a hunting trip. 
He would sometimes stay out late and come back at night, sometimes 
before night. 
While the woman was. staying at home by herself she heard some 
one talking and saw some one coming toward their place. She got into 
bed and covered herself with buffalo robes. The person came in and 
ate the meat that she had cooked, and after eating the meat up he 
went away. After the woman heard him go she got out of her bed. 
Late that evening her man returned from the hunt and asked his wife 
if the man had come and eaten up what she had cooked. She said the 
person had come and had eaten what she had cooked. Again her hus- 
band told her that she would have to do this every day, but that she 
must not look at the person and must not pay any attention to him 
while he ate. From that time on, every morning her husband went 
hunting, and she prepared the meat, so that it became a part of her 
work. Every afternoon she began to think of taking a look at the 
person, just to see what sort of looking man he was who came to visit 
her during her husband’s absence. Time went on, and she still had in 
mind to try some way to take a look at him. One time, after her 
husband had left, she bored a hole in the robe and took a piece of 
hollow grass big enough to look through and put it in the hole, and 
before she heard the person coming, she lay down on her bed, which 
was on the west side of the room in the grass-lodge. Finally he 
came, and began to eat, and after he had eaten what beef was there 
by the fire he started away. As he was leaving, the woman peeped 
through the grass stem, and saw that the man was double headed and 
had a mouth on the back of his neck. Just then the man turned back, 
and said: “Oh, you have looked at me!” He came where she was 
lying, killed her, cut her open and took out the child that she had in 
her womb. After taking out the child, the man wrapped it up in a robe 
and put it away in some other place instead of putting it where its 
mother was lying. He then took the after-birth, thrust the fire-stick 
into it and threw it into the water ; then he left the place. 
