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not there. Though they went all around seeking her, they did not find her. It came 
to pass that the youngest one went to seek her, making a very short cut across the 
country. He reached a very large hill. And he sat there. After he sat there a great 
while, he lay down there. It happened that he heard a woman crying. When he 
looked around, neither man nor woman was visible. Yet he was looking around, 
thinking “Which ean it be?” And when he lay down again, he heard the crying 
again. At length he recognized the voice of his sister. Forthwith he ran home very 
speedily. When he reached home, he told his elder brothers. ‘Elder brothers, I 
have heard my sister crying. I have found her and have come home.” ‘Ho! come, 
let us go to the place where she may be,” said they. And they went thither. And 
they reached the land. ‘It is here,” said their younger brother. “Come, listen to it.” 
And all listened to it. ‘Yes, he has taken your sister home into the ground, but how 
shall we do to get her back?” said they. ‘ Well, elder brother, do what may be in 
your mind,” said the youngest one. The eldest one having said, ‘‘My grandfather 
said that I should do thus when I got into trouble of this sort,” he hit the ground 
with a club that he had been carrying. And he barely made a small-crack. ‘Ho! 
come, do so,” he said, meaning the next brother. Having said “My grandfather said 
that I should do thus when I got into trouble of this sort,” he hit the ground with a 
club that he had been carrying. And he barely made a crack. And the third did so. 
The youngest having said, ‘“ My grandfather said that I should do thus when I got 
into trouble of this sort,” he hit the ground with a club which he had been earryirg. 
And the hill split suddenly in two from top to bottom. And it happened that by their 
blows they made all the animals appear. And behold, their sister had been made into 
a door: having been tied by her arms on both sides, she had been hung up. ‘ You and 
your elder brothers spare a male and female of each kind,” said the eldest brother 
to the rest. And they stood shooting them. And they gave names to those which 
remained after. the shooting. At length they exterminated them. They took their 
sister back to. The End. 
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NupDA"-AXA’s VERSION. 
Ma*tet wi" ta” wang¢a" e wégi¢ig¢a" akama_ ta” wang¢a" hégabaji. 
Grizzly bear one tribe that he was governing them, it is said tribe not a few. 
U¢uciaydqti yi akama. I"c‘age wi" Ma"tet agi” aki-biamé ga” cgi¢e 
Tn the very center pitched his tent, Old man one Grizzly bear having reached home, and at length 
they say. him they say 
ga-biamé: Cin’gajin’ga b¢tigaqti syigaxe ¢éwaki¢e taf, twagi¢d-gi, 
all 
said as follows, Children to play they will send them tell them — 
they say: 
A-biam&é Ma"tceti aké. Ga™ i¢éwaki¢a-biama. Cin’gajinga-macé yigaxe 
said, they say Grizzly bear the (sub.). And he sent them they say. Children ye who to play 
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