Traditions of the Osage Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...he was going. The boy told the man that his father had been whipping him, because he had let the man-eater out of the house. The man then told the boy that he had heard that if any one would kill this man-eater he could have the chief's daughter. So this man went to the creek and waited for Big-Nest, and pretty soon Big-Nest appeared on dry land. Then the man set his dogs on him, and the dogs killed him in no time. The boy watched what was done, then he went on, and was gone for two days, when he saw some deer. He threw his clay ball at them, and the ball turned into a Mountain-Lion. One of the deer he caught, killed, butchered and cooked on the fire and ate it. Again he started, and he came to a big creek, and he saw some big fish, and he threw his ball for fish in the creek and brought out two big bass, and he cooked them on the fire and ate them. Now he started again, and went on. He came to some turkeys picking acorns. He threw his third clay ball; then it turned into a Wild-Cat. It caught a turkey for him and he cooked it on the fire and ate it. And so he went on, and came to a big prairie. He saw a big herd of buffalo, and he told his buffalo clay ball that he wanted the biggest one in the herd. So the ball turned into a Mountain-Lion, and he went and killed the biggest one. Then the boy butchered it and cooked it on the fire. He stayed there two or three days. Then he went and came to a house where a man was living. He asked the man if he could stop there for about a week. The man told him it was all right, he could. So the boy told the man the troubles which had caused him to leave his own people. The mlan told the boy it was too bad for him to'leave his home. The boy stayed with this old man a long time, and he would go out and bring in...