“What kind of creature is this?” he thought; “Let me see if 1 can 
kill him,” he thought. 
So he shot an arrow at it; really, he killed it. When he went up to 
it, he did not know what manner of beast it was. 
“Let me take him home; let me see if my big sister knows him,” he 
thought. 
He took it home, dragging it, and brought it to their dwelling. 
“Big sister, come, see; what sort of creature is this?” he said to her. 
When the young woman came out, at once she recognized it. 
“Splendid! Now we shall have good eating, little brother! This is 
a dwarf moose,” she told him. 
“Ho!” 
He was glad. 
“And from this creature my brother can have moccasins,” said the 
young woman, as she set about skinning it. 
So then they ate it. And now the woman no longer set snares; for 
now her brother continued to kill rabbits. So now the woman prepared 
that creature, that her brother might have moccasins of it. When they 
had slept, in the morning when the young woman got up, her brother was 
by no means still asleep, but had gone hunting. In the afternoon her 
brother arrived; he brought two dwarf moose. 
“Splendid!” said the young woman; “And so now we shall never need 
to go hungry!” she thought; “Now of these creatures my brother shall 
have breeches,” she thought. 
So, when she had finished skinning them and cutting them up, with 
zeal then she gave her brother his food. Never now did her brother address 
her, for he was too bashful to speak to her, now that he was a young man. 
Then, the next morning early, when she arose, she saw that again her 
brother had already gone away to hunt; she, for her part, set zealously to 
work preparing the hides of the dwarf moose, to make breeches. Toward 
evening, when she had finished tanning the dwarf-moose skins, her brother 
arrived. Again he was bringing two dwarf moose. The young woman 
rejoiced. Soon night came. By this time she had finished working the 
hides of the dwarf moose, and was drying them. So then, of nights she 
would sew, making clothes for her brother. 
At last he killed also a buffalo, and brought it home, thinking, “What 
kind of beast is this?” 
When the young woman saw it, “Splendid! Splendid!” she exclaimed; 
“Now my brother can have this one for his sleeping mat.” 
So she thought; but now they never spoke to each other, only that 
the woman would look for a moment at her brother and think, “Truly, 
my brother is very handsome,” and, “Truly, it is well that I brought my 
brother off here.” 
The youth hunted every day, and dragged home buffalo always 
entire; as soon as he would bring a buffalo, by the next morning the 
woman had already prepared the buffalo hide, for sleeping robes and robes 
to wear, for her brother and for herself. And then one morning, when she 
got up, her brother was still asleep. When he knew that she had finished 
cooking, he got up. So then they ate. When they had eaten, the youth 
went out of doors, to cut sticks for snowshoes which he intended to make, 
and to set traps, two traps which he had built. When he came back . when 
