76 TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
returned to Braveness’ home. The child’s mother would not let him 
go out and play with the other boys, for she was afraid he might do 
things that he ought not to do; but one time, while she was cooking 
dinner, the boy slipped away from her and went down where the other 
boys were playing. When he joined them they began to play that they 
were Buffalo. The little boy began to play with them. He laid down 
to roll like a Buffalo, and when he rolled over twice he got up a real 
Buffalo calf, and the boys began to run from him. Just at thistime his 
mother had missed him and she looked down where the boys were 
playing. Shesaw them running and thought something must be wrong. 
She went to see what the trouble was and there she found her son changed 
into a Buffalo calf. She took him and ran down the hill, and then she 
dropped down on the hill and became a Buffalo, and then ran away 
before her husband came back from hunting. When he came back he 
could not find his wife or his son, and then some one told him what 
had happened while he was gone. At first he could not believe what 
he heard, but soon he went down to the place where they had rolled 
and saw their tracks, and then he believed the story. He never heard 
of them again. 
44. THE GIRL WHO MARRIED WILD-CAT.* 
A father and mother had three sons and a daughter. ‘The girl was 
very beautiful, but very proud, and refused the attentions of the many 
young men who came to court her. One time a handsome youth came 
to their home and ate with them and talked to her father and brothers, 
but paid no attention to her. After he had spent the evening he arose 
and went home. ‘The girl thought she had never seen so handsome a 
young man, and she wondered why he had not sought her as all the 
others had. She went to bed and thought of him fora long time ; then 
she fell asleep and dreamed of him. She dreamed that she saw him 
coming to her, and finally she awoke and lay still for a long time listen- 
ing and waiting to see if her dreams were true. She heard a faint 
noise, and she closed her eyes and prayed that her dream would come 
true. When she opened her eyes the young man was bending over her, 
begging her to go with him. She arose and followed him out into the 
darkness. 
When they were a long way from home the man told her that he 
was not a real person, but an animal, the Wild-Cat, and he told her 
that if she wanted to go home he would take her back. She refused 
to go back, saying that she wanted to go with him, no matter what he 
was. ‘Then he told her that her three brothers were already on their 
* Told by Wing. 
