61 
Thus spoke she: “Tomorrow we shall come to where my father^s 
people stay. They are in great want of food,” she said. 
So when day broke, early they arose. When they had eaten, they 
made ready. 
“Help me,” said the woman; “Since you have been thinking, ‘How 
does she do it?’ you shall now know how I do,” she said. 
“Yes,” answered the man. 
Accordingly they made ready by laying in a row their possessions and 
their stored meats. When he watched his wife, as she went forth and 
stepped on one after another of their bundles, he saw nothing at all there. 
So as they walked on, he marvelled greatly at what his wife had done. 
Then, as they walked on, towards evening they saw smoke rising from a 
wooded ravine; when they came in sight of that place, the woman's 
younger sister came forth. 
She cried: “Splendid! My elder sister is bringing a great store of 
meat!” 
So they went on and came to the house. 
The old man called out, “Splendid!” 
When the woman opened the door and, as she entered, stamped 
repeatedly, then into the lodge fell their stored meats and their belongings. 
Then when the old woman went on to pick them up, she greatly rejoiced, 
thinking, “So now I shall eat.” The old man gave thanks: “Thus I had 
it in mind, daughter, when ‘Go there,’ I said to you, ‘where my son-in-law 
dwells alone’, ” said the old man. 
There he stayed then. W'hen he had been there a long time, and 
spring had come, then he knew that she, the woman, as it seemed to him, 
whom he had to wife, was a bear, and that also the old man and the old 
woman were bears. And he was sorry that he could not always be with 
them. 
That is the end of this sacred story. 
(12) The Bearsark Woman 
Louis Moosomin 
ndh-namiskwdkdpaw. 
kUtahtawd pdyak ndpdw wiya piku dh-pdyakukamikisit pisisik mdna. 
Idtahtawd namuya mhkdts apiyiwa uvfikimdkana, tahtu-klsikdw dh-sipwdh- 
tdyit, kdh-wdwdsihuyitsih, aydwinisa dh-miywdsiniyikih tahtvr-klsikdw dh- 
pusiskahk awa iskwdw. kispin piyd-kdwdtsih, mistahi mdna mdydtaniyiwa, 
kunta mdna misiwd d-asisldmyikih. 
“ tdndhki dtukd f ” itdyihtam awd ndpdw ; “ mahtih nika-kakwd- 
wdpamdw, ” itdyihtam. 
tdpwd mdtsihkdsdw. dkwah klmdts pdh-wdh-mskawahtdw vnkiwdw, 
mahtih d-vnh-kiskinawdpamdt uwikimdkanah, tdntdh isi kitah-sipwdhtdyit. 
kd-wdpamdt aspin Utah sakdhk dy-isi-sipwdhtdyit, kiskdyimdw itdh dh- 
ituhtdyit. kd-wdpamdt dkutd sakdhk wdkaydsah d-wdh-umtsimusiyit, 
mistahi kisiwasiw, dh-uhtdyimdt ohi wdkaydsah. 
“ wdpahkih nika-nipahdw I ” itdyihtam. 
tdpwd dh-utdkusiniyikf dmisi itwdw awa : “ anuhts wdkayds nimisk- 
awdw itah dh-dwdtit^ ” itwdw awa ndpdw, dh-Jawdt. 
83186—5 
