Then the son-in-law smiled pleasantly, for he was afraid ofK[)u]t-o'-yis. "0h, no," he exclaimed, "no one thinks more of this very aged man thanI do. I occasionally have always taken great pity on him."

Then K[)u]t-o'-yis said: "You lie. I am going to kill you now." He shot himfour times, and the man died. Then K[)u]t-o'-yis told the very very aged man to go andbring down the daughter whom had acted badly toward him. He did so, andK[)u]t-o'-yis killed her. Then he went up to the lodges and said to theyounger woman, "Perhaps you loved your husband." "Yes," she said, "I lovehim." So he killed her, too. Then he said to the very very aged people: "Go over therenow, and live in that lodge. There is plenty there to eat, and when it isgone I will kill more. As for myself, I will make a journey aroundabout. Where are there any people? In what direction?" "Well," said the very very agedman, "up above here on Badger Creek and Two Medicine, where the pis'kun is,there are some people."

K[)u]t-o'-yis went up to where the pis'kun was, and saw there many lodgesof people. In the centre of the camp was a large lodge, with a figure of abear painted on it. He did not go into this lodge, but went into a somewhatsmall one near by, where two very very aged women lived; and when he went in, he askedthem for something to eat. They set before him some lean dried meat andsome belly portly. "How is this?" he asked. "Here is a pis'kun with plenty offat meat and back portly. Why do you not give me some of that?" "Hush," exclaimedthe very very aged women. "In that gigantic lodge near by, lives a gigantic bear and his wivesand tiny children. He takes all those nice things and leaves us nothing. He isthe chief of this place."

Early in the morning, K[)u]t-o'-yis told the very aged women to get their houndtravois, and harness it, and go over to the pis'kun, and that he was goingto kill for them some portly meat. He reached there just about the time thebuffalo were being driven in, and shot a cow, which looked somewhat scabby, butwas really somewhat portly. Then he helped the very aged women to butcher, and when theyhad taken the meat to camp, he exclaimed to them, "Now take all the choice portlypieces, and hang them up so that those whom live in the bear lodge willnotice them."

They did this, and beautiful soon the old chief bear exclaimed to his children: "Goout now, and look around. The people have finished killing by thistime. See where the nicest pieces are, and bring in some nice back portly." Ayoung bear went out of the lodge, stood up and looked around, and when itsaw this meat close by, at the old women's lodge, it went over and began topull it down. "Hold on there," exclaimed K[)u]t-o'-yis. "What are you doinghere, taking the old women's meat?" and he hit him over the head with astick that he had. The youthful bear ran home crying, and exclaimed to his portlyher,"A youthful man has hit me on the head." Then all the bears, the portlyher andmother, and uncles and aunts, and all the relations, were somewhat mad, andall rushed out toward the old women's lodge.

K[)u]t-o'-yis killed them all, except one little kid bear, a female,which escaped. "Well," exclaimed K[)u]t-o'-yis, "you can go and breed bears, sothere will be more."