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the woman saw that he was bringing sticks of wood, after giving him his 
meal, the woman took the sticks, and melted some fat. When the youth 
had eaten, and was whittling the sticks to make snowshoes, then the 
woman knew that he was making snowshoes. Then she prepared that 
rawhide for cutting round the edge. Then, the next morning, when he 
went to look at his traps, he had trapped an eagle and an otter. 
“Har’ 
He took all the feathers. And the woman skinned the otter, and 
dried the skin. 
“No doubt my brother wants a head-dress,” she thought. 
Then he made also his snowshoes. When he had done making them, 
the woman took the snowshoes and threaded them with the thongs, and 
dried them. And so, when they had dried, when in the morning she got up, 
again her brother no longer slept, but had gone hunting; so she went about 
her work outside the lodge, tanning hides, thinking, “I shall improve our 
dwelling.” Towards evening, as she stood outside the door, she heard 
something. As she listened, it appeared that someone was singing as he 
came; so it seemed to her. 
“I wonder if it is my brother,” she thought. 
When she went inside, quickly from close by came the sound of that 
person. When he had come near, he broke off his song. It was her brother, 
coming home with song. Where the faggots lay, on top there he threw his 
snowshoes, and as he did so, they gave a call. 
“And so it is they who came a-singing!” thought the woman. 
When she went out, he was bringing nothing but fresh hides. When 
she took it, and looked at it, she saw that it was the skin of a young bull, 
with the horns and the hoofs. These she cut off, and laid them aside. 
The hide she laid also on top of the firewood. 
“Doubtless he wants a blanket-robe,” she thought. 
The horns and the hoofs she brought indoors and put them down. 
Then, when the young man had eaten, he took the horns and placed them 
close to the fire, to take out the bone. At last he took all the bone. Then 
he went to bed. The next morning, he sat in one place; he did not hunt, 
but prepared the horns. 
And the woman, preparing the buffalo robe, just as she thought of her 
brother, “He must be hungry!” even then her brother rose from his settee. 
Then, “I wonder what is the matter!” she thought. 
But it was because that youth meant to steal his sister’s wampum- 
beads. 
So, “What can it be?” thought the woman. 
At last the youth finished preparing the horns and the hoofs. By 
nightfall the woman finished the buffalo robe. When the next day dawned, 
the youth attached to it the horns and the hoofs, to make him a blanket- 
robe. 
He said to his sister, “Sister, have you wampum beads that are white, 
and some that are blue?” he asked her. 
“Yes.” 
Accordingly, she took them and handed them to him. Then the youth 
combed his hair, and when he had combed it, breathed upon those beads, 
whereupon a great many of those white wampum-beads were on his head 
there; he had threaded all the hairs on one side of his head with the beads, 
just as though his hair were white, and on the other side the blue beads 
