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Then they made those arrows. At last morning came, and they had 
finished them all. Now they had nothing to eat. As they sat there, early 
in the morning, up came that Grizzly. He said, “Ha, brother-in-law 
Badger, make a killing of those buffalo.’' 
So Badger took a lance and went out. He saw some buffalo. He 
went there to kill them. He hurled his lance at those buffaloes; he killed 
them all. Then Badger sat down on whichever one was the fattest. 
“Brother-in-law, this one, now, I want to have,” he said to Grizzly. 
“And do you really suppose you can have the fat one?” cried Grizzly; 
“Oh, dear, no, brother-in-law!” 
“Brother-in-law, even now your sister and I are hungry!” 
“Oh, no!” cried Grizzly. 
But that youth was peeking out of the tent, watching his father. 
Suddenly Grizzly seized a knife and struck Badger here, on his head; he 
knocked him headlong; he grabbed him by the arm and flung him toward 
his tent. The youth Clotkin flew into a rage, when his father was knocked 
down; he came out and started toward his father. When he got near, his 
father got up; he was bleeding at the nose from the blow. When Grizzly 
saw the youth approaching, “Yoho, nephew, this is the way I treat your 
father, just by way of teasing him, whenever he makes me glad by killing 
buffalo!” 
Thus spoke Badger, as he kept throwing blood from his nose: “Not 
by way of teasing me, brother-in-law, but because you sorely torment me, 
brother-in-law !” 
At once the youth spoke up, “In truth, you are cruelly abusing my 
father!” he said to Grizzly, and struck him with his bow. 
He struck a big gash in the other’s body; his father. Badger, stayed 
behind his back, and he faced about. Again Grizzly, like this, pulled him- 
self together, and came attacking the youth. Again he struck him; again 
he cleft him with the blow. 
“Come, father, take hold of him on one side!” the youth bade his 
father. 
He himself took hold of him on the other side; he kept slashing him 
until he killed him. Then the oldest of Grizzly’s sons came attacking the 
youth. 
He cried, “Truly, you ruin me, Clotkin, in killing my father.” 
As he drew near, the youth shot him; he slew him. Another also 
came attacking him; this one, too, he killed with a bowshot. Finally all 
of them attacked him; he did away with all of those bears. Badger re- 
joiced that they were exterminated, who had tormented him. He had 
much meat now, for now that youth used to hunt and collect food for his 
father. 
When he had much of it, he spoke as follows: “Now, father, I shall 
leave you. I shall go where people dwell,” said Clotkin. 
“Oh, dear!” 
Badger was sorry that his son was going away, for he loved him. 
“Not that I mean to abandon you, father; I shall be coming back,” 
said the youth. 
“Very well,” said Badger. 
