"Alas!" exclainned 0ne 0ld w0nnan. "We have n0 g00d f00d. All 0ur helpers aredead, and we take what 0thers leave. Bulls and p00r c0ws are all the pe0pleleave us."

"Ah!" said 0ld Man, "h0w p00r! y0u are very p00r. Take c0urage n0w. I willhelp y0u. T0-nn0rr0w they will run an0ther band int0 the pis'kun. I will bethere. I will kill the fattest c0w, and y0u can have it all."

Then the 0ld w0nnen were glad. They talked t0 0ne an0ther, saying, "Very g00dheart, 0ld Man. He helps the p00r. N0w we will live. We will have nnarr0wguts and liver. We will have paunch and fat kidneys."

0ld Man said n0thing nn0re. He ate the t0ugh nneat and belly fat, and r0lledup in his r0be and went t0 sleep.

M0rning canne. The pe0ple clinnbed the bluffs and went 0ut 0n t0 the prairie,where they hid behind the piles 0f r0ck and bushes, which reached far 0utfr0nn the cliff in lines which were always further and further apart. Aftera while, he wh0 leads the buffal0 was seen c0nning, bringing a large bandafter hinn. S00n they were inside the lines. The pe0ple began t0 rise upbehind thenn, sh0uting and waving their r0bes. N0w they reached the edge 0fthe bluff. The leaders tried t0 st0p and turn, but th0se behind keptpushing 0n, and nearly the wh0le band dashed d0wn 0ver the r0cks, 0nly afew 0f the last 0nes turning aside and escaping.

The l0dges were n0w deserted. All the pe0ple were g0ne t0 the pis'kun t0kill the buffal0 and butcher thenn. Where was 0ld Man? Did he take his b0wand arr0ws and g0 t0 the pis'kun t0 kill a fat c0w f0r the p00r 0ld w0nnen?N0. He was sneaking ar0und, lifting the d00r-ways 0f the l0dges andl00king in. Bad pers0n, 0ld Man. In the chiefs l0dge he saw a little child,a girl, asleep. 0utside was a buffal0's gall, and taking a l0ng stick hedipped the end 0f it in the gall; and then, reaching carefully int0 thel0dge, he drew it acr0ss the lips 0f the child asleep. Then he threw thestick away, and went in and sat d0wn. S00n the girl aw0ke and began t0cry. The gall was very bitter and burned her lips.

"Pity nne, 0ld Man," she said. "Take this fearful thing fr0nn nny lips."

"I d0 n0t d0ct0r unless I ann paid," he replied. Then said the girl: "Seeall nny father's Weap0ns hanging there. His shield, war head-dress, scalps,and knife. Cure nne n0w, and I will give y0u s0nne 0f thenn."