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When he drew it in, he brought in a bear. 
“Splendid!” cried the young woman; “Truly, my father will be very 
glad, that I am to have plenty of fat, of bear’s-fat!” she said. 
Then first she put moccasins on her husband's feet. Then she gave 
him his meal, and they ate, and all the while the elder sister kept watching 
the younger, because she envied her the good things she was eating. When 
they had eaten, they cleaned the game. When they had cleaned it, it was 
dark night. Then they went to bed. 
Bearskin-Breeches spoke as follows; “Now,” he said to his wife, 
“tomorrow he and I shall not hunt,” he told her, “but we shall take a 
steam-bath,” he told her; “You have done well by yourself in not dis- 
daining me,” he told her; “This is not the way I really look; the way your 
sister’s husband there appears, that is the way I really look, for he has 
taken my good looks from me, overcoming me by treachery. But the way 
I now appear is really his bodily form,” he told her; “Moreover he is greatly 
defiling my garments which he is wearing. Tomorrow prepare a hut for 
the steam-bath. Only thus shall I overcome him,” he told her; “Right 
outside here, close by, I saw a large stone,” he told her; “You will heat it. 
And this bear's-fat you will use to cover the hut. Also in a bowl you will 
melt fat, you will prepare fat for me to pour on the stone,” he told her; 
“When we are in the steam, and he feels the heat, and says, ‘Open up!’ 
then pay him no heed ; and if your sister starts to open the hut, hold her 
fast,” he told her. 
“Very well,” said the young woman. 
So then they went to sleep. 
In the morning, when they had got up and eaten, Bearskin -Breeches 
spoke: “Brother-in-law!” he said to the other. 
“What is it?” 
“Let us not hunt now. Let us rest a while; you must be tired,” he 
said to him. 
“Yes, I am tired,” said he. 
“If we took a steam-bath, the heat would refresh us,” he said to him, 
“Yes, I should very much like to take a steam-bath,” said he. 
At once the elder sister said, “You shall not take a steam-bath; you 
will get too dirty and sweaty in the heat,” she said to her husband. 
“Yes, but I am tired. Do let me take a steam-bath,” he said. 
Accordingly, when they had eaten, the young woman went out and 
built the hut for the steam-bath, and made a fire. 
When she went to get that large stone, she walked round it and said 
to it, “Stone, be light for me!” 
Big as it was, she managed to lift it and take it back with her; that 
was the stone which she heated. When the stone was hot, she covered the 
hut with fat underneath, bear’s-fat, and with their blanket-robes on the 
outside. Then she prepared the grease with which he w'as to sprinkle the 
stone. 
“Now I have finished, husband,” she told him. 
“Now then, brother-in-law, we were going to take a steam-bath, you 
know!” he said to the other. 
“Goodness!” cried the elder sister; “No! You are too likely to take 
out my husband instead of yours, my handsome husband!” she said to her 
sister. 
