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were strung on his head : he was a Wampum -Head. Then truly handsome 
was that young man; his coat was ornamented with quill- work and with 
tassels of weasel-skins, and some were on his breeches, and they, too, had 
quill-work, and they had weasel-skins on them, and he had a headgear of 
that otterskin, and on his robe were horns, and hoofs were on it. Then 
truly handsome was that youth, when in this guise he had decked himself. 
Then, as he hunted each day, and each day killed* a buffalo, in time they 
had a plenty of food. 
Then at one time, when they had long dwelt there, then presently 
the youth did not care to hunt, but sat still in one place. Although she 
gave her brother food, the youth would not eat, but sat listlessly there. 
The woman thought, “Surely my brother is in pain.^' 
At last two days passed and the youth had not gone anywhere, but 
sat all the time inactive. 
Then the woman asked him, “Brother, are you in pain? You make 
me sad, not eating,” she told him. 
“No,” said the youth. 
Thus he did not tell her what it was. 
The next morning, when they got up and had eaten, “Now then, my 
sister, even as I look, even as I am dressed, so a young man will look; 
even his snowshoes will look so. From the direction of noon that youth 
will come. Here by the door he will place his snowshoes. ‘Come, my 
wife, I have come to fetch you!’ he will say to you. When thus he speaks 
to you, do not address him. One who comes to challenge me is that youth,” 
he told his sister; “I shall hunt over here, in the direction where the sun 
never goes; from this direction, where always I do my hunting, from this 
direction I shall come,” he told his sister; “If you speak to him, he will 
defeat me; but if you do not speak to him, then I shall defeat him,” he 
told his sister; “Exactly at noon, that is when he will come,” he told his 
sister. 
With that he went out of the lodge, on his hunt. 
Then the woman thought thus: “Perhaps because my brother and I so 
long have been alone together, perhaps now he has fallen in love with me,” 
she thought concerning her brother; because she was silly, she thought 
thus of her brother. 
So her brother was off hunting. When she knew that noon was at 
hand, she went indoors, and prepared her meal. As she was about to eat, 
just as she had done cooking, she heard something; in the direction of 
noon she heard someone who came a-singing. At last he came near. 
“Even so my brother’s snowshoes always sound,” she thought. 
When he had come near, he ceased from his song. And now he was in 
sight, walking hither. She sat still. When he came to the doorway, there 
he leaned up his snowshoes. When he came inside, greatly he resembled 
her brother. 
“From of old my wife sits here! It is to fetch you I have come!” he 
said to her. 
As looked those clothes of her brother’s, so looked this person’s clothes. 
His head, too, looked exactly so. The woman did not speak to him. 
Again, “Get ready! It is to fetch you I have come! It is to marry 
you!” he said. 
Thus spoke the woman: “It was not with the like of this in mind that 
I did my best to bring you up, my brother!” she said. 
