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did the same thing to the child; and the woman did the same again, 
she struck her child. Then Ya.uk"e’;kavm said: “Why do you | 
do that to the child? You hurt him.” The mother of Duck turned 
round quickly, || and it was true what herson had said. Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m 
had arrived | and had come back to life. Then the woman said: | 
“T am glad that you arrived. We are poor. | When your brother 
kills game, they take it away from him. When I go along | and put 
up my tent, it is taken away from me; || and when I go to another 
place and make my tent and finish it, | itis taken away again. Then 
it is dark and I have no tent. | When the hunters come back and 
bring much deer meat, | your brother alone has not any, for they 
take away all | the deer he kills. Then in the evening we are hungry. 
When the chief defecates, || they call Duck, and he must rub him | 
with his head.” Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m said: “Now | go on! When you 
get there, make your tent, | and if any one wants to take the place 
that you have arranged, strike him; | and put flint on the head of 
Duck.” || He said to him: ‘‘When the chief calls you, and when he 
tells you | to rub him with your head, then hit him with your 
head.” | Then Duck and his mother started. Ya.uk*e’j;ka‘m 
started | and went along where the snow was trodden down. Hesaw 
his younger brother. | He said to him: ‘Don’t you kill any game?”’: 
He said: “TI have killed some, || but it was taken away from me; and 
I went hunting again, but it is like that always. | If I kill game, it is 
taken away from me. Even if it is much, it is all taken away from 
me. | Then in the evening, when I get home, I and my wife and 
child are hungry. | I am poor.” Then Ya.uk'e’;ka‘m said to his 
brother: | ‘Goon; look for deer! and || if you kill it and some one tries 
to take it away from you, go after him | and strike him, and say: 
‘Don’ttakeit. If youtry | totakeit, shoot you.’”’ Ya.uke’;ka‘m 
said: | “I shall not shoot deer. Later on in the morning | I'll shoot 
some.”’ Thenthe man started and killed || a deer. Somebody went 
up to him and intended to take it. He went after him | and struck 
him with a stick. He said to him: “If | you try to take what I 
kill, PH kill you. | You have killed my elder brother; now I'll get 
angry with you.’’ | Then they were afraid of what he had done. 
When Duck and his mother arrived, || she cleaned a place for their 
tent; and when she had finished, | she got firewood. Then they 
wanted to take it away from her, | but she went after them and 
struck them with her ax. | (In former times the people had for their 
axes | stone hammers and antler wedges, which they used for split- 
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as she did now; therefore they were afraid of her. | It was almost 
evening when her husband arrived. He carried meat. | She had a 
good place for their tent, and much wood. | Then at night the chief | 
