bad-you-give-us-o-o-o

Updated: May 23, 2025

For many nights the nooses were drawn and the meat stolen; but once, when the wolves went there to steal, they found only the meat of a scabby bull, and the man-wolf was angry, and cried out, "Bad-you-give-us-o-o-o! Bad-you-give-us-o-o-o!" The people heard him and said, "It is a man-wolf who has done all this. We will catch him."

Henry Inman - The Great Salt Lake Trail

For many nights the nooses were drawn and the meat stolen; but once, when the wolves went there to steal, they found only the meat of a scabby bull, and the man-wolf was angry, and cried out: "Bad-you-give-us-o-o-o! Bad-you-give-us-o-o-o-o!" The people heard him, and said: "It is a man-wolf who has done all this. We will catch him."

George Bird Grinnell - Blackfoot Lodge Tales : The Story of a Prairie People