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if he had come to see his wife, and the man told him that he had. 
The live man’s father-in-law then told him that on the next morning 
he would have to go on a buffalo hunt; that there would be a horse 
ready for him to ride; that there was a bow and arrows that he was 
to use to kill the buffalo; that after killing one buffalo he must cut 
some fat off of the shoulder, then with his foot he must kick the 
buffalo from behind, when the buffalo would come to life, rise, and go 
off. Besides this, the father-in-law told the man that he must sleep 
with his wife, but not be covered with the same blankets; that he was 
not to touch her in any way. He remained all that day and night. The 
next morning he obeyed his father-in-law’s instructions and started 
out for the buffalo. He went to the timber, where he was told that he 
would find the four buffalo lying down. As soon as he came to an 
open place he saw the buffalo, and he made the horse run at full speed, 
in order to reach them before they had a chance to get well away from 
him. Before they reached the timber he shot one, and the buffalo fell 
to the ground. The man then took his sharp flint knife and cut the buffalo 
open, as he had been told. He took the fat, then kicked the buffalo 
behind, as he had been told to'do. Then the buffalo rose and ran to the 
woods where the other buffalo had gone. The man brought the fat 
to his wife’s home, and kept it there for his own use while he was at 
his wife’s home. Late in the evening of that day he was told to go to 
the water to take a bath, and after taking a bath, to rub the fat all over 
his body. 
The man went on a buffalo hunt every morning for four morn- 
ings, and after the fourth morning he was told that he could live with 
his wife the same as he had done on earth. The next thing for the 
man to do was to take his wife home. The last thing he was required 
to do was to send out war-parties, after he should get home, and when 
coming home from war he must bring a scalp every time he should 
go out on the war-path. He was not to be afraid of getting hurt, for 
there was some one who would carry him through without injury. 
He must go on the war-path four times. During the dances after his 
return from the war-path he was not to associate with other women 
if he wanted to live with his wife again on earth. If he did associate 
with them he could not keep his wife, but if he should do as he was 
told in everything, he could do as he pleased thereafter. They were 
then told to go, for their child was crying for his father, and some 
of the people at home were getting uneasy because they suspected that 
he had committed suicide. 
