how that we are telling the truth." "No,"
said the other three, "this being the abode of some Great Spirit, you
may have some accident befall you for taking what is not yours." "Ah!
You fellows are like old women," said he, taking a fine bracelet and
encircling his left wrist with it.

When they reached the village they reported what they had seen. The
young man exhibited the bracelet to prove that it was the truth they had
told.

Shortly after this, these four young men were out fixing up traps for
wolves. They would raise one end of a heavy log and place a stick under,
bracing up the log. A large piece of meat was placed about five feet
away from the log and this space covered with poles and willows. At
the place where the upright stick was put, a hole was left open, large
enough to admit the body of a wolf. The wolf, scenting the meat and
unable to get at it through the poles and willows, would crowd into the
hole and working his body forward, in order to get the meat, would push
down the brace and the log thus released would hold the wolf fast under
its weight.

The young man with the bracelet was placing his bait under the log when
he released the log by knocking down the brace, and the log caught his
wrist on which he wore the bracelet. He could not release himself and
called loud and long for assistance. His friends, hearing his call, came
to his assistance, and on lifting the log found the young man's wrist
broken. "Now," said they, "you have been punished for taking the
wristlet out of the chamber of the mysterious butte."

Some time after this a young man went to the butte and saw engraved on
the wall a woman holding in her hand a pole, with which she was holding
up a large amount of beef which had been laid across another pole, which
had broken in two from the weight of so much meat.

He returned to the camp and reported what he had seen. All around the
figure he saw marks of buffalo hoofs, also marked upon the wall.

The next day an enormous herd of buffalo came near to the village, and
a great many were killed. The women were busy cutting up and drying the
meat. At one camp was more meat than at any other. The woman was hanging
meat upon a long tent pole, when the pole broke in two and she was
obliged to hold the meat up with another pole, just as the young man saw
on the mysterious butte.

Ever after that the Indians paid weekly visits to this butte, and
thereon would read the signs that were to go