The son-in-law and his wives came home, and after a while he heard the child crying.  He told his youngest wife to go and find out whether that baby was a boy or a girl; if it was a boy, to tell them to kill it.  She came back and told them that it was a girl.  He did not believe this, and sent his oldest wife to find out the truth of the matter.  When she came back and told him the same thing, he believed that it was really a girl.  Then he was glad, for he thought that when the child had grown up he would have another wife.  He said to his youngest wife, “Take some pemmican over to your mother; not much, just enough so that there will be plenty of milk for the child.”

Now on the fourth day the child spoke, and said, “Lash me in turn to each one of these lodge poles, and when I get to the last one, I will fall out of my lashing and be grown up.”  The old woman did so, and as she lashed him to each lodge pole he could be seen to grow, and finally when they lashed him to the last pole, he was a man.  After K[)u]t-o’-yis had looked about the inside of the lodge, he looked out through a hole in the lodge covering, and then, turning round, he said to the old people:  “How is it there is nothing to eat in this lodge?  I see plenty of food over by the other lodge.”  “Hush up,” said the old woman, “you will be heard.  That is our son-in-law.  He does not give us anything at all to eat.”  “Well,” said K[)u]t-o’-yis, “where is your pis’kun?” The old woman said, “It is down by the river.  We pound on it and the buffalo come out.”

Then the old man told him how his son-in-law abused him.  “He has taken my weapons from me, and even my dogs; and for many days we have had nothing to eat, except now and then a small piece of meat our daughter steals for us.”

“Father,” said K[)u]t-o’-yis, “have you no arrows?” “No, my son,” he replied; “but I have yet four stone points.”

“Go out then and get some wood,” said K[)u]t-o’-yis.  “We will make a bow and arrows.  In the morning we will go down and kill something to eat.”

Early in the morning K[)u]t-o’-yis woke the old man, and said, “Come, we will go down now and kill when the buffalo come out.”  When they had reached the river, the old man said:  “Here is the place to stand and shoot.  I will go down and drive them out.”  As he pounded on the jam, a fat cow ran out, and K[)u]t-o’-yis killed it.

Meantime the son-in-law had gone out, and as usual knocked on the old man’s lodge, and called to him to get up and go down to help him kill.  The old woman called to him that her husband had already gone down.  This made the son-in-law very angry.  He said:  “I have a good mind to kill you right now, old woman.  I guess I will by and by.”