By Louis A. Berman
With greater than 10,000 listed entries, this detailed and exhaustive quantity deals not just a entire directory of either universal and vague proverbs, yet a desirable compilation of the funny and insightful remark that those undying utterances have encouraged over the centuries.
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Then he dried his body with the leaves of the sage. When he came from the lodge he was again handed the pipe. He performed the sacred ceremony and smoked the pipe in silence. When the last puff of smoke had floated away, the medicine-man said: 'White Crow, I have seen your horses. Go north for one camping distance. Climb the hill that you will then see in front of you. At the Page 13 foot of the hill on the other side is a meadow. ' The medicine-man then put his whistle and medicine in his deerskin bag and went away.
All were eager to go, so that when the party left for the chase not a man was left in the village. Only the women and children remained to make preparations for taking care of the meat that the men would bring home and to tan the skins. So everybody in the village was busy too. It was a great and successful hunt. Every warrior got a buffalo, and some of them got more. When the herd had scattered over the plain and disappeared, then every man got busy skinning the animals and getting the meat ready to load on the pack-ponies for the ride home.
When she reached the hilltop she spread the meat on the ground and the wolves ate it. Ever after that, when the long winter months came and food was scarce and hard to find, Marpiyawin took meat to her friends the wolves. She never forgot their language and oftentimes in the winter their voices calling to her would be heard throughout the village. Then the people would ask the old woman what the wolves were saying. Their calls would be warnings that a blizzard was coming, or that the enemy was passing close, and to send out a scout or to let the old woman know that they were watching her with care.
