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“Truly, I did well by myself when I did not scorn you!” she said to 
her husband. 
Then the elder sister said to her, “Little sister, do let me be married to 
your husband!” 
“No! My brother-in-law was disgusted with you,” she told her. 
Then they ceased. He went hunting every day, and chased buffalo, 
and brought them home entire; in time they had much food. Presently 
toward spring, they had a child; a little boy. Then, when he thought 
that they had too much food, he no longer hunted every day. Then at one 
time, as he went to an outlook, there were two youths coming that way. 
He went back. 
As he entered the tent, “Ho, two youths are walking hither!” he said. 
“Dear me, those must be my brothers!” was what she said. 
Thereupon that woman began cooking, for she thought, “My brothers 
shall eat.” 
There, when those young men came into view of the place, they beheld 
a great amount of meat hanging outside the tent. 
“Splendid!” was what they said as they approached; “Truly, I am 
glad to see things like this!” they said. 
When they reached the place, “Hello, come in!” he said to his brothers- 
in-law. 
When they entered, “Hoho!” they liked their brother-in-law's looks. 
But one of their sisters had no husband at all. 
“Hey,” said the one, “Why is it that one has not a husband?” 
“Oh, why, this sister of yours did have a husband, but her husband 
went away; he took a dislike to her after a time. She was married quite a 
while, but the man was not really much of a provider of game. Perhaps 
you know him: his name is Bearskin-Breeches.” 
“Heavens, yes! So we had that person for a brother-in-law!” the one 
answered him. 
Those young men were ashamed that such a looking man had been 
their brother-in-law. 
They spoke as follows: “Today, at nightfall, our father will camp 
here, for we are moving camp to this place, on account of great famine; 
because bur father knew, after all, that you were here, brother-in-law, is 
why we are moving camp this way. This, in fact, was our father's thought, 
when he came and left my sisters here, for, ‘Perhaps some man or men will 
not disdain them and marry them, and then kill something in the way of 
game,' was what our father thought,” said those youths; “He will be 
very glad, when he sees the way things are,” the one told him. 
The young women were glad that their father was coming with his 
camp. Then really, in time, came the sound of their father’s speech, as 
he came in sight. 
He said, “Surely that is all meat!” he said; “And here was I starving!” 
he said, and out went that young woman, saying to her father, “Yes, 
meat, indeed!” 
The old man gave thanks, for he was glad, and then, “This was what 
I had in mind, my children, as my reason for coming and leaving you in 
this place,” he told his children. 
