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Then they went out. What was there, but all kinds of game-animals, 
jumping deer, all the game-animals there are? For these snow-darts had 
killed game, and it was they were supplying meat, so much of a manitou 
person was he whose snow-dart had been tracked. 
Thus he thought: “Let these children forget. Let them not get 
homesick!” he thought. 
Really, it was so. 
“Come, set up a great many drying frames!” he said. 
Those children did as he had bidden. At dark, again he asked for the 
snow-darts. 
“Do not now play with these snow-darts. Work. Set up drying frames 
everywhere. Hang up the dried meat indoors here,” he ordered. 
The children did as he said. As soon as day broke, early in the morn- 
ing again he sang, as he flung the snow-darts, bidding the snow-darts 
“Hunt!” 
At nightfall, “Come inside, all of you! Form two lines from the door 
to the opposite wall!” he ordered. 
They did so. Again the snow-darts came flying into the house. Again 
they had supplied meat. By this time the day was done. The children 
were happy, because they could eat. 
That was the way he managed things; it was always the same thing 
that he did. In time, all over that large grove pieces of meat were hanging, 
all kinds of food supplies, as a result of their work. They had a big store 
of meat. 
Then at one time, when this Silly-Fellow had gone out in the morning, 
, from the direction whence the wind was blowing there came 
the smell of fat meat. He set out in the direction of the scent, following 
the smell of fat meat. In the early morning he thought it was near. He 
walked slowly. When he reached that big wood, it was already evening. 
Again he came to open country. He broke into a run. All the while he 
smelled the scent of fat meat. When it was well on toward dark, he got 
there. 
“Oho, our elder brother has come! Give him something to eat. He 
is hungry,” said he whose snow-dart had been tracked. 
Then he ate all night; for he was hungry. 
Then the one who made the snow-darts work said, “Let there be 
stormy weather, so that this big brother of mine may not go home and tell 
what he has seen!” he said. 
Really, the next morning, there was stormy weather. 
Then he spoke thus: “Hunt!” he said to the snow-darts. 
Towards evening, “Come indoors, all of you!” he said; “As you sat 
before, sit now, in two rows!” he commanded. 
They did so. Silly-Fellow watched them. Really, the snow-darts 
came flying into the house, and the boys cheered loudly with joy, and set 
about cleaning the game. He watched them. 
“Oh, little brothers, let me stay with you. I go hungry too much 
in the place whence I come, because no one there can kill any game, and 
all go hungry and eat only as one eats after a contest,” he said. 
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