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elder brother again went out hunting buffalo. When he was away for 

 some time and the two were by themselves, the woman again said to 

 her brcther-in-law : " Look at me ! Look at my body ! It is good and 

 clean. You can take me if you will." But the young man said: "No, 

 I will not. My brother provides the food for me, and this is his own 

 tent in which I am living." So he went and sat on the hill again. When 

 he got hungry he came back. The woman asked him: "Will you not 

 do what I ask you ? We are alone ; there is no one here ; look at me." 

 But the young man looked down. He would not look at his sister-in- 

 law. He said to her : "Do not desire me ; I love m^ brother too much." 

 Mulier respondit : "Quamquam iuvenis es, tamen mecum coire non 

 vis ; tu solus es qui coire recuses. Quin facis quod ego te rogo, quae 

 et tibi morem gero et corpus meum trado quocumque modo uten- 

 dum ?" While she was still talking the young man went out. He went 

 to the top of a hill and cried, feeling sorry when he thought what his 

 sister-in-law wished him to do. He did not want to wrong his brother, 

 whom he loved dearly. After a while he went back to eat, and entered 

 the tent. His bed was at the back, clean and free from dust. He sat 

 down and the bed gave way, precipitating him into a deep hole which 

 the woman had dug when the young man had gone out. She had cov- 

 ered the hole with willows and laid the bedding on top. Now she cov- 

 ered her brother-in-law up in the hole, and above it made the bed again. 

 In the evening her husband came home. "Where is my younger 

 brother?" he asked. "Oh, he has gone traveling somewhere and may 

 come back some time," said the woman. She had already taken a 

 spleen and was cooking it on the fire. As her husband sat in the tent 

 he heard some one calling, and said : "Who can it be ? I heard some 

 one shouting!" "Can you not hear, it is this spleen which is cook- 

 ing?" said the woman. Still he continued to hear faint shouting some- 

 where. As his wife told him nothing about his younger brother, he 

 decided that he must have gone on to the camp. So they went there, 

 leaving the ground, where the bed had been, looking as if it had never 

 been disturbed. When they reached the camp of the people, the man 

 asked about his younger brother ; but they told them he had never ar- 

 rived. He thought much of hi& younger brother and went out on a 

 mountain to cry. The woman also went out to cry. Then young men 

 who were waiting outside for women, heard this woman saying as she 

 cried : "I caused my brother-in-law to fall into a hole." "Listen 

 to what this w'oman is saying!" said the young men. ''I dropped him 

 in," she cried. 



A young wolverine came to the place where the three people had 



