YOUNG-BOY-CHIEF, WHO MARRIED A BUFFALO. 203 
When they arrived at Young-Boy-Chief’s home they entered the 
' grass-lodge, and there they saw a good many of the older men sitting 
around with Young-Boy-Chief. The men noticed that the child called 
him father. Young-Boy-Chief wanted to remain a boy, and so he 
called to the men to remove this woman and child. So they were 
thrust out of the place. The woman then took the child and packed 
him on her back. She started toward the north, whence she had come, 
and when they got out from the village they turned into what they 
were—Buffalo, the woman being a female and the child being a young 
Buffalo calf. 
Young-Boy-Chief then decided to go after them, but they were 
already a long way ahead of him. He kept on, thinking that he could 
catch up with them. Late that evening the child came to his father and 
told him that he would have to keep on, for the woman was not going 
to stop unless they had to stop for a night’s rest. Then the boy went 
on ahead of his father, and caught up with his mother. Late that day 
the woman stopped, to await her man. When they stopped, this woman 
got a kind of bush that the buffalo like to eat, and used it for fire- 
wood. She then asked her husband if he wanted something to eat. The 
man told her that he did want something to eat, for he had come from 
a long distance. He was given a piece of kidney and a piece of corn 
bread to eat, for his supper. He was then told what troubles he would 
have to endure when he arrived at the woman’s home; that he would 
have to meet his wife’s husbands; that she had four husbands, all of 
whom were brothers. She also told him that she had a sister, younger 
and prettier than herself, and that she was near; that she would try to 
get him and would offer herself to him for a wife, but he must not 
accept that offer, but keep it to himself; that upon their arrival he would 
see a large herd of Buffalo and that in the middle of the herd he would 
see dust flying, for her men knew of his marrying their wife; that on 
the morning after their first night he would be called to meet them 
all, for he was taking their wife away from them, and in order that he 
might keep this woman for himself he must be able to find his wife from 
the midst of all the female Buffalo; and again, if he should be able 
to tell his wife from the other female Buffalo, he would be required to 
find from among the male Buffalo his wife’s uncle; that every time they 
should ask him such a question all these would be lined up, and all of 
them would look alike; and if he should be able to determine which 
one of the four was his wife’s uncle, then the next thing that he would 
have to do would be to be able to tell them which one of the older 
Buffalo calves was his child. In so doing, when he should look for 
