YOUNG-BOY-CHIEF, WHO MARRIED A BUFFALO. 201 
seen painted on a robe before. Soon the people found that she was 
always ahead of all the other women in the game, and that she played 
the game out before any one could catch up with her. While the game 
was going on among the young women, the young men played their 
shinny game, and other games, such as arrow games, etc. The dry 
grass that the young woman had turned loose had rolled up in between 
the legs of Young-Boy-Chief. Young-Boy-Chief would throw away 
the dry grass, but it would come around again and crawl up between 
his legs. Young-Boy-Chief was anxious to see the games end, so that 
he could see where this woman would go, so that he could follow her. 
But the dry grass kept crawling in between his legs, and he was 
worried about this. He took the dry grass and went into the lodge, 
where he lived, and placed it in the wall of the grass-lodge, over his 
bed, and then he lay down. He wished that this had not happened to 
him, for he was bothered by the dry grass, but he did not know this 
was connected with a plot of the woman to win his love. 
After Young-Boy-Chief went into the lodge, discouraged, the sun 
guing down, and the game ended, the woman went back by the way 
she had come, accompanied by the same woman who had come with 
her. She left this young woman where she had found her. She then 
went to the creek and took a bath. After her bath, she began to study 
where to go during her stay at the village. She went into the first tipi 
she came to, and there she was requested to be seated on the south side 
of the tipi. She noticed that there was but a man and a woman and 
child in there. She also noticed that they had no provisions, for they 
did not offer her anything to eat. She then told them that she wanted 
to stay with them for a while, and they told her that she could do so. 
It then happened that she went out to urinate, and she heard the man 
telling his wife that she was a stranger, and had come from a long way, 
perhaps, and that she was a famous woman. When the man had 
finished talking about her she went into the tipi again. Young-Buffalo- 
Woman asked the people if they wanted something to eat. They told 
her that they did, and she reached around with her right hand to her 
left side and brought out a kidney and a piece of corn bread. She told 
them to save the fat of it, and then she gave it to them to eat. They 
began to eat the kidney and bread. After getting enough they gave 
the fat to the woman again, and she put it back where she had taken 
the kidney from. She then reached around again, this time with her 
left hand to her right side, and took for herself the same things that 
she had given the others to eat. She began to eat, too, and when she 
had eaten all she wanted she put it back again, where she had taken 
her food from. 
