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This last house belonged to a chief. Then the chief said to the woman, 

 "Send him to me, that I may give him to eat." Then the woman 

 said to the young man, "Go to the chief's house, for he invites you 

 in!" Therefore ho went; and when he entered, a crowd of young 

 men came to meet him at the door. They took all his weapons and 

 examined them, and they made him sit down on one side of the large 

 fire. 



Then the chief ordered his attendants to prepare food for him, 

 and they did so. They gave him rich, fat food; and while he was 

 eating, the young men brought in all the weapons which they had 

 taken from him. 



When it was late in the evening, the chief gave him some fur 

 blankets — marten blankets and raccoon blankets — and the hunter 

 slept soundly. 



Early the following morning somebody shouted, "The grizzly 

 bears are coming down on the other side of the river!" Therefore 

 the chief said, "Let the good hunters go and kill them!" Then the 

 hunter took all his weapons and went across the river, and he took 

 his first quartz arrow to shoot the grizzly bear, but his bow broke. 

 Then he took his spear, but his spear broke. Then the great grizzly 

 bear came to him and killed him right there. 



Then the chief whose guest he had been the night before cut him 

 in two and hung him up in one corner in the front of his house. 



Now, the second brother set out to search for his elder brother, who 

 had been lost a few days previous. He took all his weapons, hung 

 his quiver over his side, took his spear over his shoulder, and his 

 good bow, and started. After he had left the camp a little while, 

 behold! there was a large fat porcupine which met him on his way. 

 He clubbed the porcupine, tied its hind legs, and hung it on a tree, 

 as his elder brother had done before. 



He went a little farther; and when he reached the top of the rock, 

 he saw a very fine white she-bear feeding on the green grass before 

 him. He crept up to her secretly and shot her. The bear fell on 

 the green grass. He went up to her, and wanted to see the top of the 

 mountain a little above him. When he reached the top of the moun- 

 tain, he looked down on the other side, and saw the smoke rising 

 from a large village at the foot of the steep mountain. 



Then he slid down on his snowshoes; and when he came to the 

 side of the first house, he went around and looked through a knot- 

 hole; and the woman inside looked at him, smiled at him, and 

 invited him in. 



Again the people next door, in the house of the chief, asked the 

 woman, "Did any one come to you ?" and she replied "Yes." There- 

 fore the chief said, "Let him come to be my guest!" and so the young 

 woman sent him to the chief's house. 



