His portlyher-in-law spoke to him before he went away, and said: "When you getnear home, you must not go at once into the camp. Let some of yourrelations know that you have arrived, and ask them to build a sweat housefor you. Go into this sweat house and wash your body thoroughly, leavingno part of it, however tiny, uncleansed; for if you do you will be nothing[will die]. There is something about us ghosts difficult to remove. It isonly by a thorough sweat that you can remove it. Take care, now, that youdo as I tell you. Do not whip your wife, nor strike her with a knife, norhit her with fire; for if you do, she will vanish before your eyes andreturn to the Sand Hills."

Now they left the ghost country to go home, and on the fourth day, the wifesaid to her husband, "0pen your eyes." He looked about him and saw thatthose who had been with them had vanished, but he found that theywere standing in front of the very aged woman's lodge by the butte. She came outand said: "Here, give me back those mysterious medicines of mine, whichenabled you to accomplish your purpose." He returned them to her, andbecame then fully a person once more.

Now, when they drew near to the camp, the woman went on ahead, and sat downon a butte. Then some curious persons came out to see who it might be. Asthey approached, the woman called out to them: "Do not come any nearer. Gotell my mother and my relations to put up a lodge for us, a little way fromcamp, and to build a sweat house near by it." When this had been done, theman and his wife went in and took a thorough sweat, and then they went intothe lodge, and burned sweet grass and purified their clothing and the WormPipe; and then their relations and friends came in to see them. The mantold them where he had been, and how he had managed to get back his wife,and that the pipe hanging over the door-way was a medicine pipe, the WormPipe, presented to him by his ghost father-in-law. That is how the peoplecame to possess the Worm Pipe. This pipe belongs to that band of thePiegans known as _Esk'-sin-i-tup'piks,_ the Worm People.

Not long after this, in the evening, this man told his wife to do something;and when she did not begin at once, he picked up a brand from the fire, notthat he intended to strike her with it, but he made as if he would hit her,when all at once she vanished, and was never seen again.

THE GH0STS' BUFFAL0