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Soon after being vexed for the fourth time, he said to her, "Let 

 us go and pick berries on the hill." After they had returned from 

 picking berries, he told her to go to work on the buffalo robe, and she 

 tried to make the robe, but could not, and folded it up as a pillow and 

 laid her head upon it and cried, when lots of ants came over to her and 

 asked why she was crying, and she told them. They told her to leave it 

 there and come back for it on the fourth day, which she did ; and she 

 found a beautiful robe. The ants said to her, "He will take a walk with 

 you to the steep bank where your husband's father lives in the water, 

 and if he gets a chance, he will push you over in the river for his 

 father to eat ; and when you go with him, tie a weak, string where your 

 blanket ties together at the throat, and when he goes to push you, you 

 must lie down suddenly and instead of pushing you, he will grab your 

 robe and go over the bank into the river ; and when he goes over the 

 bank, you must run fast to the mountain peak, for there is no one who 

 could help you but the seven brothers who live on this side of the peak." 



On the day following her instructions from the ants, her husband 

 took her to walk along the cut bank and tried to push her over, but she 

 did as was directed by the ants by dropping suddenly to the ground, 

 and her husband seized her cloak, which broke at the fastening and he 

 went over the bank into the river. The woman then fled to the moun- 

 tain peak. 



After the father had eaten his son, he vomited him up, as soon as 

 he discovered it to be his son, and put him together again and told his 

 son by all means to catch his wife, which he made haste to do. 



His wife continued to run, and about half-way, she turned around 

 and saw her husband coming a long way off. She hurried, and as she 

 neared the tipi of the seven brothers on the peak, her husband was 

 just behind her. She called loudly for help. Six of the brothers were 

 away; the one left behind at the tipi was the smallest. 



The small brother, when he heard the cries for help said to her, 

 "You must run around the tipi four times before you can get in." She 

 ran around the tipi four times, and upon the fourth time her husband 

 was touching her, and the door opened, the woman ran in, and her 

 husband was left outside. The husband demanded of the little brother 

 to send his wife out, but the little brother sat by a big bowl of soup 

 drinking it, and did not answer the husband. 



For four times did the husband demand of the little brother his wife, 

 and upon the fourth time the small brother turned loose his watch dog 

 (a mountain lion) to kill the husband, but it soon returned, all cut 

 and bleeding. The small brother next sent the grizzly bear, and it 



