dig them. Her husband
said, "No; no one does so here."

Then the camp moved. When the woman had pitched her tepee, and came
inside to lay the mats, she saw there a beautiful teepsinna. She said
to herself, "I will dig this; no one will see me." So she took her
digging stick and dug the teepsinna; but when she pulled it out of the
earth, the foundation of the Star Country broke and she fell through
with her baby. So the woman died; but the baby was not injured. It lay
there stretched out.

An old man came that way. When he saw that the baby was alive, he took
it in his blanket and took it to his own lodge. He said to his wife,
"Old woman, I saw something today that made my heart feel badly."

"What was it?" she asked.

"A woman lay dead; and a little baby boy lay beside her kicking."

"Why did you not bring it home, old man?" she asked.

"Here it is," he said. Then he took it out of his blanket.

The wife said, "Old man, let us adopt this child."

The old man said, "We will swing it around the tepee." He whirled it
up through the smoke hole. It went whirling around and around and fell
down, and came creeping into the tent.

Again he took up the baby and threw it up through the smoke hole. It
got up and came into the tent walking. Again the old man whirled him
out. In came a boy with some green sticks. He said, "Grandfather, I
wish you would make me arrows."

Again the old man whirled him out. No one knows where he went. This
time he came back into the tepee a long man, with many green sticks.
He said, "Grandfather, make me arrows of these."

So the old man made him arrows, and he killed a great many buffaloes,
and they made a large tepee, and built up a high sleeping place in the
back part of the tepee, and were very rich in dried meat.

The old man said, "Old woman, I am glad we are well off; I will
proclaim it abroad." So when morning came, he went to the top of the
tent, and sat, and said, "I, I have abundance laid up. I eat the fat
of the animals."

That is how the meadow lark came to be made, they say. It has a yellow
breast and black in the middle, which is the yellow of that morning,
and they say the black stripe is made by a smooth buffalo horn worn
for a necklace.

The young man said, "Grandfather, I want to go visiting."

"Yes," said the old man. "When one is young is the time to go
visiting."

The young man went and came to a people, and lo! they were engaged in
shooting arrows through a h