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When they had set up their tent, “Now, come here, children, let us 
fetch meat,” he told his children. 
They all went forth. Then that Skunk-Woman felt very sad, when 
she knew that he was going to take their food-supplies. 
“Well, brother-in-law, come in!” said Badger, in vain, to him, but 
Grizzly paid no heed. 
He took all the meat. 
“Come, children, bring it home,” he bade his children. 
They carried off the meat in great quantity. He took all, carrying 
home the meat to the last bit. Then Grizzly went inside the tent; he 
took all of Badger’s food supplies, robbing him of all. And Skunk-Woman 
cried, grieving for it, lamenting her store of food. 
She said, “Husband, and so we are to starve to death,” she said, 
weeping. 
“Stay still where you are!” said Badger; “Your brother is incorrigible, 
and that is the end of it,” he told his wife. 
And so Badger had absolutely nothing to eat. And Grizzly and his 
household did nothing but eat. At last Badger had eaten nothing for a 
long time; at last he was almost dead from hunger. Although he would 
see buffalo, he did not care to kill them. 
“In any case that Grizzly will take them all, if I kill an}^” he thought, 
and that was why he did not care to kill them. 
At last Grizzly also was hungry, when he had eaten up the supplies. 
Then once he saw some buffaloes. Grizzly went there. 
“Listen, brother-in-law, Badger! Close by here are some buffaloes. 
Make a killing, we are all hungry,” he said. 
Then Badger rose to his feet and went out to spear them. He killed 
them all. 
Grizzly hallooed, “Children, your uncle has got them all! Come here! 
Come fetch the meat,” he cried, and started out. 
By this time Badger was on the point of taking one of those buffaloes, 
a fat one; just then up came Grizzly. 
“What is the idea. Badger?” 
“Why, I wanted it, seeing that I have some buffaloes, I wanted to 
have some meat. We are very hungry, brother-in-law,” said Badger. 
Grizzly cried : “And so you are going to have a fat one for your share 
of the meat, are you, indeed!” he said to him. 
“Oh, but your sister is hungry,” said he. 
In truth, Grizzly merely took hold of Badger, seizing him by the arm, 
and flung him off to one side. 
“Go home! You shan’t have any meat at all,” he told Badger. 
Badger went home; he was afraid of Grizzly. Grizzly took all the 
meat. Then, in the evening, that Skunk- Woman went to the place where 
the butchering had been done. She saw some blood. She took this; she 
took it home and put in it her kettle, and heated a part of it, of that blood, 
for herself and Badger to eat. 
Then, when night came, they went to bed. As they lay there, before 
they had gone to sleep, they heard a child crying. Skunk-Woman got up 
and lit a fire, and there she saw a child in the kettle, crying. She took it 
up, looking upon it with tender pity, and saying to her husband, “Let us 
keep him.” 
