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Then the other people ate it. 
Then night fell. Again the old woman walked in her sleep. 
“Hey, my children, the elk that runs by here, I dreamt that if my 
son-in-law kills it, and I eat its head, then I shall cease to walk in my sleep,” 
she said. 
In the morning, when he heard this, “Oh, I shall not kill him now!” 
thought that Pine-Root-Man. 
“There goes that elk that is so strangely large!” he heard the people 
cry, and went outside. He took only one dart. He threw the dart at it, 
as it ran past, and off it went with his dart in its belly. The youth went 
back. He took all his lances and his head-dresses. He pursued it. There, 
he kept coming to w'here it had stopped to rest. At last it was late in the 
afternoon. At frequent intervals it was stopping to rest. Presently he 
came to a pleasant grove of trees. Willows stood round about. It was 
beginning to snow. 
“Oh, in any case, it will die not far away. I shall sleep here. I shall 
keep up a fire; I shall have a fire,” he thought. 
It was a big grove, all of young poplars, and of old trees, of black- 
poplars. Then he cleared away the snow and made a fire. It was getting 
dark. 
As a tree stood close by there, “Firewood, a log of poplar wood I 
shall put on my fire,” he thought, and started to take it. 
As he did so, “Oh, oh!” cried that tree. 
He left it alone. He thought it better at the other side; at the other 
side of the fire he made his resting place of willow-boughs and grass. He 
could not sleep. There was a strong wind, and it snowed. Presently, there 
to the windward, the youth heard something. When he looked in that 
direction, there came someone falling. Her leggings were gathered down 
here; she had not tied them up at all. 
“Oh dear, oh dear! Grandmother! My poor grandmother will freeze 
to death! Come, come, grandmother, sit over there. I was chasing an 
elk which I had wounded and am tired from tramping through the deep 
snow. Tomorrow I shall go kill it, grandmother. We shall have meat 
to eat.” 
“Alas, my dear grandchild, I am terribly starved; when they moved 
camp to where the people are staying, they went off leaving me behind, 
and now I have got lost,” 
“Never mind, grandmother, I will take you back to where they live, 
tomorrow, as soon as I have killed the elk. I will get some wood ; you are 
too cold.” 
He pulled up her leggings for her and tied up her moccasins. He 
treated his grandmother very kindly. 
“Now, grandmother, I am going to sleep. Try to keep up the fire 
to warm yourself,” he told his grandmother. 
“Alas, my dear grandchild, I if I am able, I shall put wood on the 
fire,” his grandmother answered him. 
And so the youth went to sleep, but he did not really sleep, but only 
meant to deceive her, for he thought, “This is none other than my mother- 
in-law.” 
Presently, “Grandchild, I am freezing!” she said to him. 
