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 on them , and would not even eat the food they had brought . So they went away , and the young man soon stretched himself out on his mat ; but his wife 's odd conduct made him anxious , and he lay wake all night , listening . When all was still the girl made a fire and boiled some water in a pot . As soon as it was quite hot she shook in the medicine that she had brought from home , and then , taking the buffalo 's head , she made incisions with her little knife behind the ear , and close to the temple where the shot had struck him . Next she applied the horn to the spot and blew with all her force till , at length , the blood began to move . After that she spread some of the deer fat out of the calabash over the wound , which she held in the steam of the hot water . Last of all , she sang in a low voice a dirge over the Rover of the Plain . As she chanted the final words the head moved , and the limbs came back . The buffalo began to feel alive again and shook his horns , and stood up and stretched himself .
Unluckily it was just at this moment that the husband said to himself : ' I wonder if she is crying still , and what is the matter XXXXX her !
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