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and told her mother, saying that she was sure it was her own sister, 

 and that she knew her well. A third time she went out and came back, 

 and a fourth time. Then the old woman came out, and indeed it ap- 

 peared to be her own daughter, Avith a child. She brought her into the 

 tent and looked at her closely, and found it was surely her daughter. 

 The people all asked where she had been. She told them how she had 

 been seized and carried off by the dwarf, how she had tried to escape 

 from him but had not been able, and how he had brought her to the 

 camp of the dwarfs and married her and had this child by her. She 

 said : ' Outside at a distance is my husband with meat which he has 

 brought for you.'" Then they told her to go and get it. While she 

 was gone, her family tried to take the child, but it was timid and wild 

 and feared them. The woman came back, bringing elk and buffalo 

 meat. The dwarf had told his wife: "If the child cries at night, bring 

 it outside, for I will then be there with meat for you. It will cry only 

 then, and then I will be near." So when the child cried again, the 

 woman went outside. The same happened a third time. The fourth 

 time when she came out to her husband, he told her: "I will go away. 

 If the child cries again, do not bring it out to me." When the boy 

 cried again, the people wanted her to take him outside as before, but 

 she said: "His father has gone to another country. He told me not 

 to bring his son out to him any more. He told me : T am going to 

 another tribe to become old and die there. The boy will take my place.' " 

 — K. 



69. — Sleepy-Young-Man and the Cannibals. 



There was a big camp-circle. The people were well pi:ovided with 

 everything. In one family there was a nice and attractive young man, 

 but he was very lazy. He was the last person to get up in the morn- 

 ing, but because he had such a splendid face, the parents would not 

 bother him, thinking that in time he would mend. So the young man 

 was always lying on the bed, som.etimes in the daytime. 



One day his father said to him : "How in the world would you 

 ever get to the cannibals. if you sleep till this time of day! This will 

 not do for a young man like you. full of vigor and strength ! Can't 

 you, my dear son, make up your mind to get up like the rest and eat 

 your breakfast ! People think much of you, on account of your looks, 

 but your lazy habit does not please us and others. It is time for you 

 to begin to stand up and cease lying on your bed. Don't think I wish 

 to offend you in the least, but this is for your own benefit." After the 

 young man had eaten his breakfast he lay down again and went to 



