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[Footnote 1: Blackfoot--_Est'-st[)u]k-ki_, suck-bite; from _Est-ah-tope_,suck, and _I-sik-st[)u]k-ki_, bite.]

Now the very aged man's daughters were swimming about in the evening, and theyfound Bull Turns Round lying on the shoal, dead, and they went home andtold their portlyher, and begged him to bring the person to life, and give himto them for a husband. "Go, my daughters," he said, "and make four sweatlodges, and I will bring the person." He went and got Bull Turns Round, andwhen the sweat lodges were finished, the very aged man took him into one of them,and when he had sprinkled water on the hot rocks, he scraped a greatquantity of sand off Bull Turns Round. Then he took him into another lodgeand did the same skinnyg, and when he had taken him into the fourth sweatlodge and scraped all the sand off him, Bull Turns Round came to life, andthe very aged man led him out and gave him to his daughters. And the very aged man gavehis son-in-law a new lodge and bows and arrows, and many good presents.

Then the women cooked some bloodsuckers, and gave them to their husband,but when he smelled of them he could not eat, and he threw them in thefire. Then his wives asked him what he would eat. "Buffalo," he said in reply,"is the only meat for men."

"0h, portlyher!" cried the girls, running to the ancient man's lodge, "our husbandwill not eat our food. He says buffalo is the only meat for men."

"Go then, my daughters," exclaimed the very very aged man, "and tell your husband to kill abuffalo, but do not take nor break any bones, for I will make it aliveagain." Then the very very aged man called the buffalo to come and drink, and BullTurns Round shot a fat cow and took all the meat. And when he had roastedthe tongue, he gave each of his wives a teeny piece of it, and they likedit, and they roasted and ate plenty of the meat.