One day, just after sunset, they came in sight of the big camp, and they went and pitched the lodge on the top of a very high butte; and the buffalo fed close by, and there were so many of them that they covered the whole hill.

Now the people were starving, and some had died, for they had no buffalo.  In the morning, early, a man arose whose son had starved to death, and when he went out and saw this lodge on the top of the hill, and all the buffalo feeding by it, he cried out in a loud voice; and the people all came out and looked at it, and they were afraid, for they thought it was St[=o]n’-i-t[)a]p-i.[1] Then said the man whose son had died:  “I am no longer glad to live.  I will go up to this lodge, and find out what this is.”  Now when he said this, all the men grasped their bows and arrows and followed him, and when they went up the hill, the buffalo just moved out of their path and kept on feeding; and just as they came to the lodge, Bull Turns Round came out, and all the people said, “Here is the one whom we thought the bears had killed.”  Wolf Tail ran up, and said, “Oh, brother, you are not dead.  You went to get feathers, but we thought you had been killed.”  Then Bull Turns Round called his brother into the lodge, and he threw the sinew on the fire; and Wolf Tail, and his wife, who was standing outside, twisted up and died.

[Footnote 1:  There is no word in English which corresponds to this.  It is used when speaking of things wonderful or supernatural.]

Then Bull Turns Round told his father all that had happened to him; and when he learned that the people were starving, he filled his mouth with feathers and blew them out, and the buffalo ran off in every direction, and he said to the people, “There is food, go chase it.”  Then the people were very glad, and they came each one and gave him a present.  They gave him war shirts, bows and arrows, shields, spears, white robes, and many curious things.

K[)U]T-O’-YIS

Long ago, down where Two Medicine and Badger Creeks come together, there lived an old man.  He had but one wife and two daughters.  One day there came to his camp a young man who was very brave and a great hunter.  The old man said:  “Ah!  I will have this young man to help me.  I will give him my daughters for wives.”  So he gave him his daughters.  He also gave this son-in-law all his wealth, keeping for himself only a little lodge, in which he lived with his old wife.  The son-in-law lived in a lodge that was big and fine.

At first the son-in-law was very good to the old people.  Whenever he killed anything, he gave them part of the meat, and furnished plenty of robes and skins for their bedding and clothing.  But after a while he began to be very mean to them.

Now the son-in-law kept the buffalo hidden under a big log jam in the river.  Whenever he wanted to kill anything, he would have the old man go to help him; and the old man would stamp on the log jam and frighten the buffalo, and when they ran out, the young man would shoot one or two, never killing wastefully.  But often he gave the old people nothing to eat, and they were hungry all the time, and began to grow thin and weak.