ill I saw
two great Buffalo-Bulls. You were not looking, but I saw them, and if
you will do as I want you to we shall have plenty of meat. This is my
scheme; I shall pull out all of your hair, leaving your body white and
smooth, like that of the fish. I shall leave only the white hair that
grows on the tip of your tail, and that will make you funny to look at.
Then you are to go before the Bulls and commence to dance and act
foolish. Of course the Bulls will laugh at you, and as soon as they
get to laughing you must act sillier than ever. That will make them
laugh so hard that they will fall down and laugh on the ground. When
they fall, I shall come upon them with my knife and kill them. Will
you do as I suggest, brother, or will you starve?'

"'What! Pull out my hair? I shall freeze with no hair on my body,
OLD-man. No--I will not suffer you to pull my hair out when the winter
is so near,' cried the Fox.

"'Ho! It is vanity, my brother, not fear of freezing. If you will do
this we shall have meat for the winter, and a fire to keep us warm.
See, the wind is in the south and warm. There is no danger of
freezing. Come, let me do it,' replied OLD-man.

"'Well--if you are sure that I won't freeze, all right,' said the Fox,
'but I'll bet I'll be sorry.'

"So Old-man pulled out all of the Fox's hair, leaving only the white
tip that grew near the end of his tail. Poor little Red Fox shivered
in the warm breeze that OLD-man told about, and kept telling OLD-man
that the hair-pulling hurt badly. Finally OLD-man finished the job and
laughed at the Fox, saying: 'Why, you make me laugh, too. Now go and
dance before the Bulls, and I shall watch and be ready for my part of
the scheme.'

"Around the hill went the poor Red Fox and found the Bulls. Then he
began to dance before them as OLD-man had told him. The Bulls took one
look at the hairless Fox and began to laugh. My! How they did laugh,
and then the Red Fox stood upon his hind legs and danced some more;
acted sillier, as OLD-man had told him. Louder and louder laughed the
Bulls, until they fell to the ground with their breath short from the
laughing. The Red Fox kept at his antics lest the Bulls get up before
OLD-man reached them; but soon he saw him coming, with a knife in his
hand.

"Running up to the Bulls, OLD-man plunged his knife into their hearts,
and they died. Into the ground ran their blood, and then OLD-man
laughed and said: 'Ho, I am th