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So he got up and went there. 
When he opened the door he cried, “Cripple-Bear, I have come to get 
my grandmother’s fat meats,” 
“Yes, yes, take them.” 
He entered; the other rose to his feet, seized him by the arm, and 
flung him out of the lodge. He got up again. He entered, saying to the 
other, “I have come to fetch my grandmother’s fat meats.” 
“Yes!” 
Already that Cripple-Bear’s sons spoke thus: “Father, do not heed 
him! Never does anyone deal thus with you. I suppose this creature has 
some unusual power! Not by a long ways will he have mystic power! 
He is nearly bursting at the belly, so pot-bellied is he.” 
As he was about to take his fat meats, that is, his grandmother’s, 
there again that chief rose to his feet. He took hold of the bear’s arms 
and broke first one, then the other; and he tore his mouth way open. So 
now the other could not hold anything. Thereupon he took home all his 
grandmother’s fat meats and slices of dried meat, while back there the 
bear was howling, “Oh dear, oh dear!” 
He brought them to their lodge. Then he stayed there. 
Then the bear’s sons said to him, “This is what I told you, father; 
you did not listen to me,” they told him; “Now then, try to cure your 
arms and your mouth,” they said to him. 
“Yes.” 
Vainly he tried to cure himself; he was not able. At last he was near 
to death. 
“Now then,” his sons said to him, “now, father, my sisters here” — 
those young women — -“my two sisters here do you give to him. He will 
restore you to life, if he can marry them.” 
“Very well.” 
Accordingly the old woman went there to give her daughters to 
Clotkin. 
She said to him, “Now, these daughters of mine are being given to 
you, that you may try to save the old man’s life,” she said. 
“Very well,” said Clotkin, “be off, go home,” he told the old woman. 
He went there. When he entered, there was the other, with his 
mouth hanging wide open. Then he at once took hold of the other’s arms 
and rubbed them. They were well again. Also his mouth he rubbed for 
him, and he got well. Then he went back to his grandmother’s lodge; 
there he stayed. At last night fell. In the morning, off to one side those 
young women built a lodge. When they had finished, he was sent for. 
He went there. When he entered, at once he saw the elder of the young 
women; he knew that she disliked him, that she thought him disgusting. 
He sat near to her; always she moved away. She did not sit close to him, 
for she hated him 
When the younger one, by whose side he sat, prepared some berries 
and gave them him to eat, as he began to eat them, the elder sister said: 
“Sister, truly you do not mind if a person looks dirty!” 
Thereupon, the next night when they went to bed, he said to his wife: 
“There, you did well by yourself in not rejecting me,” he told her; “Not 
thus shall I look, as now you see me. Tomorrow I shall bring in some 
