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what to do." After the woman had said so, she vanished from his 

 sight. 



Then the young man went to the top of the mountain; and when 

 he reached up there, he looked down on the other side and saw a 

 large town at the foot of the steep mountain. He slid down over 

 the ice, and arrived at the side of the first house at the end of the 

 large town. He went around and looked through a knot-hole, and, 

 behold! the same woman was alone in there. She looked at the 

 young man and smiled, and beckoned to him, and he staid with her. 1 



She said to him, "The chief will invite you hi, but do not eat 

 much, as your nine brothers have done; and do not allow them to 

 take your weapons away from you, for they always exchanged your 

 brothers' weapons for dried stalks. Let them not have any of your 

 weapons. Early tomorrow morning the grizzly bear will come 

 down, and the chief will send you to kill it. When you have killed 

 it, the whole village will fight against you, but I will help you. 

 Because your brothers' weapons were exchanged for stalks of plants, 

 their arrows and then - spears broke easily. Now, I shall let you 

 have my two dogs to help you when you are tired." With this she 

 handed him her two pups, and said, "Put them in your garment. 

 When you are out of breath, throw the two pups on the ground, 

 and say, 'Grow up quickly, Red, and fight!' and then throw down 

 the other one, and say, 'Grow up quickly, Spots!' " 



After the woman had finished speaking, the chief in the house 

 next door asked, "Did any one come to you?" The woman did 

 not answer him at once, as she had done before, because she loved 

 the young man much. The young man embraced her and kissed 

 her many times. After that the chief asked again, "Did any one 

 come to you?" and the young woman replied quickly, "Yes, he is 

 coming." Then the chief said, "Send him over to my house, that I 

 may feed him on rich, fat food." 



Then the man went; and when he came to the door of the chief's 

 house, a great crowd of young men met him. They acted very 

 kindly toward him, and wanted to take his weapons from him, but 

 he refused to let them have them. They led him to one side of the 

 large house, and a grizzly-bear skin was spread by the side of the 

 largo fire. He sat down there, but nobody took his weapons away 

 from him. Then the chief ordered his attendants to prepare food, 

 and they did so; but the young man refused to eat, and said, "I just 

 finished my dinner before I came sliding down the mountain, there- 

 fore I am very thankful for your kindness;" but the chief compelled 

 him to eat. Therefore the young man took a little. Late at night 



ia'°xda k!u!-lii-kVri<lEt da di-ni"st da hmamxt, ada ligi-an'o'nt 

 i-wil-na'kga hana'°xt. 



