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Morning came. In the morning, when they got up, when they had 
eaten, the handsome one went out to go hunting. On his way out, he 
kicked the hunchback. 
“Why are you sitting like that, Bearskin-Breeches? Didn’t you know 
we were staying at our wives’?” 
On his way out he upset him with a kick, so that he reeled about and 
coughed. 
When he arose, he said to his wife, “Bring me a rawhide rope.” 
She gave him a little leather thong. Thereupon he left the house, 
coughing as he went, to go a-hunting, he too. 
“I can’t imagine what he will kill!” said the older sister of her brother- 
in-law. 
So all day they hunted. At nightfall the handsome man arrived. 
His booty turned out to be one otter. JMeanwhile he who had the cough 
did not arrive. 
At last, when it was dark, “Did you not see him anywhere?” the one 
asked her husband. 
“No; I did not see him at all. I daresay he will be freezing to death 
somewhere!” he answered her, for it was winter-time. 
After some time, there came the other, leaning on a stick; at last he 
arrived. 
“Why, he really has come!” said the elder sister. 
When he entered, he took his seat there by the door, and handed his 
wife the rawhide. When the young woman pulled at it, in she pulled a 
partridge or a prairie-chicken. 
This was what the elder sister had said, when her husband brought 
the otter; “Sister, we shall not invite each other to eat. Whatever our 
husbands kill we shall eat,” she had told her sister, for she thought that 
her sister’s husband would not succeed in killing anything. 
So now, accordingly, they did not share their food, but the handsome 
man and his wife ate the otter. And the younger sister and her husband 
ate the partridge. So in time they went to bed 
And again, when day broke and they got up, the handsome man went 
out to hunt. Again he kicked the other. 
“Why are you sitting like that? Didn’t you know we were newly 
married, Bearskin-Breeches?” he said to him, kicking him over, so that he 
coughed as if he were going to die, the elder sister meanwhile laughing and 
laughing at her brother-in-law being kicked about. The latter, too, went 
off to hunt. All that day he tramped about. When night fell, again the 
handsome man arrived; again he brought an otter. 
“Hey, now my big brothers will rejoice, when they get these otter- 
skins for hats!” said the elder sister. 
When it was entirely dark, then came the other a-coughing. 
“Well, well, well, there he is again!” she said of her brother-in-law, 
for she abhorred him. 
When he entered and had taken his seat, he handed his wife the raw- 
hide rope, 
“I suppose, another partridge!” said the elder sister. 
