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wife, and if he would not think of any other wife but her. The young 
man said he would be true to his wife, because he loved her and he 
mourned her all his life until he had come to where they were, and he 
was anxious to live with her again, and would not for anything mis- 
treat her if he could live with her again. The young husband was told 
to go outside; that there he would find a horse tied; that he must ride 
to a certain open place surrounded by timber, where there were some 
buffalo; that he must get on a ‘horse and go and kill one of the buffalo; 
that after killing it he must cut it open along the back, take the fat 
off from the hump, then kick the buffalo once on the back and tell it 
to get on its feet and go. The young man went out where the horse 
was, with the bow and arrows and quiver that were given him. When 
he reached the smooth, open circular place surrounded by timber he 
saw in the middle of it four great, big buffalo sitting down. He made 
haste to reach them before they should rise. Now, it is natural for the 
buffalo, when he gets up, always to stretch before making any move- 
ment. When the young man reached the buffalo they started to run. 
The man cut one off from the group and shot it. The buffalo died. 
Then he did as he had been-told to do, cutting the buffalo’s back open 
and taking a piece of fat off from the hump, then kicking the dead 
buffalo once on the back and asking it to get up, for it was fast asleep. 
Then the buffalo rose and ran into the timber. When the man reached 
home he turned the horse loose and delivered the fat to his father-in- 
law. Still his wife made no sign of speaking to him. When the right 
time came the man was told to take a sweat bath; then bathe his body 
in incense; then use the fat, rubbing it all over him. This he did every 
day for four days, and when the four days had passed the man’s father- 
in-law told ‘him that he could take his wife back to his home, for their 
child was lonesome; that the child was crying every day for want of 
his father; that when the returned to his home he must get up a war- 
party and go out with it, and on his return bring back a scalp and put 
it away where the people could not find it before the proper time; that 
he must continue this until he hhad done it four times; that then he 
might live with his wife; that he was forbidden to have any other 
woman than his wife during this time. The young man was to secure 
four scalps for his wife’s people before he could live with his wife. 
The young man and his wife started for home. The woman ordered 
her husband to go ahead and have the grass-lodge swept out clean, 
and to have it smoked with white sage; then, after this was done, to 
come back after her, when they would both go on home. So the young 
man went on to his home and had these things done and at once turned 
