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Then the young woman went out of doors and said, “But as to these 
my stores of meat, whichever you think is the best, father, by it pitch 
your tent," she said to him. 
Then by the best stores of meat, there his children cleared away the 
snow. 
“Now, my men," he said to the others; “Camp wherever you like the 
look of the meats," he told the people. 
So then they pitched camp. Thereupon he went and entered his 
daughter’s tipi, to see his son-in-law. There he beheld also his grandson, 
who by now was quite a lad: he took him and kissed him again and again. 
He was very glad. All the people were glad. They continued to stay 
there for a long time, until their son was big. 
Then at one time the old man spoke thus: “Daughter, do you never 
hear my son-in-law say that any of his relatives are alive?" 
“To be sure, he often speaks of his father and mother, and says, Tt 
is a long time since I left them’." 
“Yes; so there, daughter, surely my son-in-law’s father and his wife 
must be lonesome. You had better go there; do you now, in turn, take 
care of your husband’s mother and father," he told his daughter; “I am 
sufficiently well off now, so long as I eat the things my son-in-law has 
killed,” he told her. 
“Very well, I will tell him this," his daughter said to him. 
When she went home, she said to her husband, “ ‘Go you to my son- 
in-law’s father,’ is what my father says,” she told him. 
“Very well, tomorrow we shall depart. No doubt they are in want; 
after all, it is a long time since I left them to come here," he answered her. 
Accordingly, when day broke, they made ready for his departure, and 
truly, all the people bade them farewell. So they departed, and when 
they had camped twice on the way, they came in sight of his people’s home 
to which they were going. 
“Here, I shall run ahead; I shall go tell my father that we are about 
to arrive," he said to her. 
“Very well." 
Then he ran on. When he got there, behold, he saw nothing at all 
of things to eat. 
When he entered the lodge, there sat his father and his mother; 
“Splendid! Our son has come!” they cried, as they greeted him, and his 
mother wept for no reason at all, except that she was so glad to see him. 
And so they gave thanks. 
“Now, close by on her way hither is a woman who has come here with 
me, and also your grandchild," he told them. 
The old man spoke his thanks. 
“Oh, I must!” exclaimed the old woman, and went out of the lodge, 
to go meet her daughter-in-law and her grandchild. When she met her, 
she kissed her. 
“My daughter-in-law!” she said to her; “Give me my grandchild!” 
she said to her. 
The other gave her the child, and him too she kissed many times. 
Then they left that spot and went on, and she carried her grandchild. 
When they arrived, and she took him into the house, at once the old man 
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