The son-in-law did not know whether to believe this, and sent his oldest wife to ask the same question.  When she came back and told him the same thing he believed that it was really a girl.  Then he was glad, for he said to himself, “Now, when this child has grown up, I shall have another wife.”  He said to his youngest wife, “Take some back fat and pemmican over to your mother; she must be well fed now that she has to nurse this child.”

On the fourth day after he had been born the child spoke and said to his mother, “Hold me in turn to each one of these lodge poles, and when I come to the last one I shall fall out of my lashings and be grown up.”  The old woman did as he had said, and as she held him to one pole after another he could be seen to grow; and finally when he was held to the last pole he was a man.

After Kut-o-yis’ had looked about the lodge he put his eye to a hole in the lodge-covering and looked out.  Then he turned around and said to the old people, “How is it that in this lodge there is nothing to eat?  Over by the other lodge I see plenty of food hanging up.”

“Hush,” said the old woman, raising her hand, “you will be heard.  Our son-in-law lives over there.  He does not give us anything at all to eat.”

“Well,” said the young man, “where is your piskun—­where do you kill buffalo?”

“It is down by the river,” the old woman answered.  “We pound on it and the buffalo run out.”

For some time they talked together and the old man told Kut-o-yis’ how his son-in-law had abused him.  He said to the young man, “He has taken from me my bow and my arrows and has taken even my dogs; and now for many days we have had nothing to eat, except sometimes a small piece of meat that our daughter throws to us.”

“Father,” said Kut-o-yis’, “have you no arrows?”

“No, my son,” replied the old man, “but I still have four stone arrow points.”

“Go out then,” said Kut-o-yis’, “and get some wood.  We will make a bow and some arrows, and in the morning we will go down to where the buffalo are and kill something to eat.”

Early in the morning Kut-o-yis’ pushed the old man and said, “Come, get up now, and we will go down and kill, when the buffalo come out.”  It was still very early in the morning.

When they reached the river the old man said, “This is the place to stand and shoot.  I will go down and drive them out.”

He went down and stamped on the log-jam, and presently a fat cow ran out and Kut-o-yis’ killed it.

Now, after these two had gone to the river the son-in-law arose and went over to the old man’s lodge, and knocked on the poles and called to the old man to get up and help him kill.  The old woman called out to the son-in-law, saying, “Your father-in-law has already gone down to the piskun.”  This made the son-in-law angry, and he began to talk badly to the old woman and to threaten to harm her.