340 THE HUDSON BAY ESKIMO. 



husband by this time, and when the father had seen tbe water going 

 from their house he told the chiklren: " Your uncle is coming and he 

 is certain to kill you." The water had soon gone down sufficiently to 

 enable the man to cross the stream to where the house was situated. 

 On arriving there he began pounding at the mud walls. The father 

 told the children to go out or else the house would fall on them. The 

 man outside quickly killed the two young ones. The wife knew she 

 would soon be killed also, and after they had heard the deathblows 

 given to their children she said to her husband, " If you are sorry that 

 1 am killed and ever want to see me again, keep the right hand and 

 arm of my body; take off the skin and keep it about you." In a few 

 minutes the brother had begun again to tear out the sides of the lodge. 

 The husband told her to go out, and that his love for her would make 

 him keep her right hand. She then went out and was quickly killed 

 with a stick. When this was done and the hu.sband had heard it all 

 he was very sorry for his wife. Again the man began to destroy the 

 rest of the house and soon had a large hole in the wall of one side. The 

 husband then said to him, "What are you doing! You are making me 

 very cold." The brother replied, "I have brought some warm clothing 

 for you and you will not feel cold." ''Throw them in," said the hus- 

 band, "for 1 am freezing." He put ou the clothes, and while he was 

 doing it the brother noticed the hairs which had grown on the other's 

 back, but said nothing about it. The husband then sat in his house 

 until the other was near freezing to death. The brother then said to 

 him, " Oome with me ; you can not stay here." The husband demanded, 

 as a condition of returning, that the brother should never say anj-thing 

 to him to make him angry if he went back. The brother promised 

 him not to do so. They then started to return, the brother taking the 

 bodies of the children and mother ou his back, the husband walking 

 ahead. They soon arrived at the home of their people. The brother 

 threw down the beavers and directed his wife to skin them. The hus- 

 band of the beaver asked for the right hand and arm of the beaver 

 who had been his wife. It was given to him. He got one of the other 

 women to skin it, and told her to dry the skin and return it to him. 

 Three nights after their return to their people a great many beavers 

 were killed and a large kettle full of flesh was boiled for food. The 

 people pressed the runaway brother to eat of the flesh of the beavers. 

 He informed them that if it was the flesh of a female beaver he would 

 not eat it. They told him that the flesh of the male beavers was all fin- 

 ished long ago. They forced him to eat a large piece of meat, and when 

 he had swallowed it they gave him more of it. The second piece was 

 no sooner down his throat than a large river gushed from his side. 

 Tiie Indian jumped into the river, while the rest ran away in terror 

 and, as these latter looked down the river, they saw the man swimming 

 by the side of his wife who had been a beaver. 



The venturesome hare. — A hare, which had lost his parents, lived 



