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at night, | and he was still eating his flesh. Then in the morning he 
was still eating. | He wanted more. He could not stop eating. It 
was | evening again, and he had eaten all his flesh. | He had gnawed 
it off, and only bones remained. || He ate his own eyes, and only the 
orbits remained. | He even ate his own tongue. He ate his whole 
body. Only | his intestines remained lying there. His intestines 
remained, and his throat. | It was that way; he did not eat his intes- 
tines and his stomach. | Only his bones remained; and he did not 
eat his brains and his marrow, || but there was no more flesh on his 
skull. He was sitting down. | Then he would not look any more at 
the mountain sheep. | Three days passed, and he did not return to 
his town. Then | one of his elder brothers went to look forhim. He 
followed his tracks. | He went along, and saw where his younger 
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brother had killed || the mountain sheep. He could see his tracks 40 
below. He went along. | There was a creek. He saw a fire. | His 
younger brother was there. Hewasnot dead. He thought: “Maybe 
his leg is broken, | and therefore he does not go home.’’ He went 
there and spoke to him. He said: ‘‘Oh, I love | my elder brother! 
Tl keep myself alive for two days with him.” (The elder brother) 
saw him sitting there. || He looked strange. Only his bones remained. 
He said to him: | “What did you do, that you look like this?”” He 
was told: “I amno more | a human being. I have become a giant. 
Don’t come near me! | I love you.’”’ Then (the elder brother) went 
there. He was taken hold of. He thought: | “There are only 
bones. He is not strong.’’ The giant took hold of him and killed 
him || and ate him. On the following day his next younger brother | 
said: ‘‘T’ll go. . If I do not come back, I shall have died.” | Then 
the youth started. He also arrived, | and he also was killed. On 
the following day the remaining one | started. The boy said: ‘TI 
also || may die. I love my elder brothers. They are all dead now, | 
so I will die, too.’”’ The youth went on. | He was small. He saw 
a manitou. He was told: | “Go there! Your eldest brother who 
went out first is there. -He ate all | your elder brothers. He became 
a giant.’”” Then the youth was told plainly | by the manitou that 
(his elder brother) | had been changed into a giant, and how he 
had killed the two who went there. | He was told what to do. 
Then hestarted. He arrived, | and saw his elder brother. He looked 
terrible. He was pitiable. | He said: ‘‘My younger brother, I love 
you. || I have become a giant. T’ll eat you.” Then (the boy) did | 
what the manitou had told him, and he could not kill him. | (The 
boy) went back. He saw that (the giant) followed him. The boy 
arrived | at the town. THesaid: “A giant pursues me. | My brother 
has become a giant. He || ate my elder brothers who went there. 
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