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built his hunting-lodge there. Many days passed by after they had 

 reached this place. One morning the man went out to put up his 

 raccoon traps, while his wife staid at home in the camp. The man 

 came home late in the evening; and two days later he went to look 

 after his traps, which he had put up a few days before. lie had 

 built many all along the valley. When he came to his traps, they 

 all had caught animals, and he set them again. Then he carried the 

 raccoons to the camp, and his wife was very glad to see her husband's 

 good luck. Late at night he finished his work, and on the following 

 morning he began to skin the raccoons, and his wife helped him. 

 They dried the skins and the meat, and both worked all day until 

 late at night. 



On the following day he went again to his traps, and he caught 

 more than he had before. His wife, helped him carry the animals 

 to the camp, and early the next morning they skinned the animals. 

 The woman was very happy because her husband had caught many 

 raccoons. 



The sun was shining on their camp when she went to the place 

 where her husband was working. She said, "My dearly beloved 

 husband, just look at me for a while!" The man had no time to 

 look at her, and did not pay attention to what his wife said. She, 

 however, forced him to look at her. When she thus compelled him 

 to look at her, the man said, "You are no better than these raccoons. " 



Then the woman was very much ashamed, and left her husband 

 weeping. She sat down on the bank of a brook that ran between 

 those two mountains. There she was sitting and weeping; but her 

 husband did not pay any attention to her, because he had much 

 work to do with the animals he had killed. The woman continued 

 to cry. When her husband saw this, he said to her, "Stop crying, 

 my dear, and come home with me!" but she replied, "No, I won't; 

 I am no better than these raccoons. I am ashamed on account of 

 what you have said to me. Go away! I am no better than the 

 raccoons." 



She cried again ; and so her husband went away, and went on with 

 his work. She continued to weep. Before the sun went down she 

 felt very warm, and therefore she stopped crying and went down to 

 the little river to cool herself. She took gravel and small pebbles and 

 dammed up the water to make a small pool, in which she intended 

 to swim. Soon the water began to rise to her knees. Then she took 

 more stones and gravel to dam up the water. There was a rock 

 in the middle of the pool which she had made. She went there and 

 rested on it. 



When the sun went down, her husband came down and called her 

 ashore; but she refused to come, and said, "I am no better than your 

 raccoons. I am much ashamed on account of what you said to me. " 

 Then the man saw her swimming about in the pond. Late in the 



