Her husband felt anxious , and sent for the medicine man ; but though she pretended to listen to him , she threw all his medicine out of the door directly he had gone away . With the first rays of light the whole village was awake , and the women set forth armed with baskets and the men with knives in order to cut up the buffalo . Only the girl remained in her hut ; and after a while she too went to join them , groaning and weeping as she walked along . ` What are you doing here ? ' asked her husband when he saw her . ` If you are ill you are better at home . ' ` Oh ! I could not stay alone in the village , ' said she . And her mother-in-law left off her work to come and scold her , and to tell her that she would kill herself if she did such foolish things . But the girl would not listen and sat down and looked on . When they had divided the buffalo 's flesh , and each woman had the family portion in her basket , the stranger wife got up and said : ` Let me have the head . ' ` You could never carry anything so heavy , ' answered the men , ` and now you are ill besides . ' ` You do not know how strong I am , ' answered she . And at last they gave it her . She did not walk to the village with the others , but lingered behind , and , instead of entering her hut , she slipped into the little shed where the pots for cooking and storing maize were kept . Then she laid down the buffalo 's head and sat beside it . Her husband came to seek her , and begged her to leave the shed and go to bed , as she must be tired out ; but the girl would not stir , neither would she attend to the words of her mother-in-law . ' I wish you would leave me alone ! ' she answered crossly . ` It is impossible to sleep if somebody is always coming in . '
And she turned her back XXXXX them , and would not even eat the food they had brought .
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