babe on her back The rest of the camp with her husband
went on.

At noon her husband halted the line. "Go back to your sister-in-law,"
he said to his two brothers. "Tell her to come on and we will await you
here. But hasten, for I fear she may grow desperate and kill herself."

The two rode off and arrived at their former camping place in the
evening. The woman still sat on the ground. The elder spoke:

"Sister-in-law, get up. We have come for you. The camp awaits you."

She did not answer, and he put out his hand and touched her head. She
had turned to stone!

The two brothers lashed their ponies and came back to camp. They told
their story, but were not believed. "The woman has killed herself and my
brothers will not tell me," said the husband. However, the whole village
broke camp and came back to the place where they had left the woman.
Sure enough, she sat there still, a block of stone.

The Indians were greatly excited. They chose out a handsome pony, made
a new travois and placed the stone in the carrying net. Pony and travois
were both beautifully painted and decorated with streamers and colors.
The stone was thought _"wakan"_ (holy), and was given a place of honor
in the center of the camp. Whenever the camp moved the stone and travois
were taken along. Thus the stone woman was carried for years, and
finally brought to Standing Rock Agency, and now rests upon a brick
pedestal in front of the Agency office. From this stone Standing Rock
Agency derives its name.

STORY OF THE PEACE PIPE

Two young men were out strolling one night talking of love affairs. They
passed around a hill and came to a little ravine or coulee. Suddenly
they saw coming up from the ravine a beautiful woman. She was painted
and her dress was of the very finest material.

"What a beautiful girl!" said one of the young men. "Already I love her.
I will steal her and make her my wife."

"No," said the other. "Don't harm her. She may be holy."

The young woman approached and held out a pipe which she first offered
to the sky, then to the earth and then advanced, holding it out in her
extended hands.

"I know what you young men have been saying; one of you is good; the
other is wicked," she said.

She laid down the pipe on the ground and at once became a buffalo cow.
The cow pawed the ground, stuck her tail straight out behind her and
then lifted the pipe from the ground again in her hoofs; immediately she
became a young