“Soon he saw some fine, fat buffalo, ten of them, just across the river. Then Porcupine wanted to get across the river, but could not. After some thought he called to the buffalo to stand in line. This was so that he could tell which one was the fattest. Then he picked out the fattest one and told him to swim across the river. When this buffalo came up to Por- cupine, he asked Porcupine where he wanted to sit, on his back or on his tail.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 36 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan