YOUNG-BOY-CHIEF, WHO MARRIED A BUFFALO. 205 
after eating breakfast, they again began to travel, and at noon the 
young calf was asked to stay back until his father should come along, 
then ask him again whether he was hungry. The calf stayed back, 
awaiting his father. When his father came along he asked him if he 
was hungry. His father told him that he was, and then the calf went 
on to catch up with his mother, to tell her that his father was hungry, 
and when he caught up with his mother and told her that his father 
was hungry, he was given the same things for the man to eat as before. 
Then he waited until his father came along, then gave to him the food 
for him to eat. But he would not stay with his father, but continued 
on after his mother. Young-Boy-Chief then went on, and while on the 
way, he ate his dinner. After he had eaten all he had, there came in 
sight a high hill, and the woman went over it. Then he saw his son 
stop to wait for him to come along. He traveled until he came to the 
high hill. The boy then told him that his mother’s home was over the 
hill. As the looked at the summit of the hill he saw a great herd of 
Buffalo. After seeing the herd of Buffalo, without knowing what had 
happened tto ‘his eyes, this herd became a large village. In the middle 
of the village he saw a large tipi, and this the boy told him was his 
mother’s home. So they went to his wife’s lodge. On entering he saw 
his wife, her brothers, uncles, sisters, father, and mother. The woman 
was asked if that was her husband, and she said in reply that it was her 
man, and that he was a chief’s son. They began to ask Young-Boy- 
Chief if he would not have their sister for a wife instead of the woman 
he had, for there was going to be trouble between him and some other 
men who were brothers. But Young-Boy-Chief did not pay any atten- 
tion to this request, for he knew that he was coming out of these 
troubles without great difficulty. After Young-Boy-Chief had entered 
the lodge his father-in-law told him that he would be called early the 
next morning to the place where the four brothers were, for they were 
already informed of his arrival. On the following day and night he 
remained with his wife’s parents, and it seemed to him like living with 
any other human beings. 
On the next morning Young-Boy-Chief was notified that he was to 
go and meet his brothers and prove whether he could meet all their re- 
quirements. When he got to the place he saw great herds of female 
Buffalo, all of them about the same age. They were all lined up, and 
facing north. Young-Boy-Chief then began at the east end and looked 
for his wife. He was accompanied by the men, who were trying to cause 
him to make a mistake while trying to find his wife. They believed 
that on account of the great number of these female Buffalo that he 
