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She watched him. There where he sat, there he sank into the earth, 
and there, in front of her brother as he sat, there he came sticking out his 
head, and her brother with his knife slashed through the other's neck. 
Toward where the woman sat fell that head of his. She was taken up 
with fright ; she did not seize it. That head of his went back into place. 
Thereupon he was alive. He emerged from the earth; he sat down again 
in his place. 
“There, but now it is your turn!” her brother was told. 
He made ready, from where her brother sat, he sank into the earth. 
In front of where he sat who had come to play, there her brother stuck out 
his head from under the earth. When her brother's head had been slashed 
off, that youth took it from where it fell, and started out of the lodge. 
“There is the one who, of all anywhere, could defeat me!” he said, as 
he Rxarted to go away, taking with him that head. 
Then she lamented, weeping, because her brother's head was taken 
away. She took up her brother's body, and placed it upon his settee. He 
did not die, even though his head had been taken away. He breathed, as 
he lay there, on his couch. Then, weeping without respite, at last a long 
time that woman stayed there, her brother all the while breathing; but he 
had no head. 
Then, at one time, there arrived a man who came from the region of 
the setting sun. 
When he came into the lodge, really, he sat down directly upon her 
couch, saying to her, “I have come to fetch you; I mean to marry you.” 
At once she recognized him as the one of whom her brother had told 
her. 
“Yes,” she said to him; “But first let us eat,” she said to him. 
Accordingly she cooked a meal. When she had prepared her meal, 
they ate. 
When they had eaten, “Come, make ready now,” he told her. 
- So she made herself ready. 
“Wait a bit,” she said to him; “First I must put fuel on the fire, 
that my brother may not freeze,” said the woman, and went out of the 
lodge; she took four sticks of crumbling wood and put them on the fire. 
“There,” she said, as she set them down, “Never go out! — Well, I am 
ready!” 
She went out. The woman left behind in their lodge all the things 
that were there, and they departed, that man taking her with him to his 
home. Accordingly, over yonder, at nightfall, that man arrived at their 
dwelling. She saw that his lodge was a large one and that it had been made 
entirely red. 
“Now dwell here!” 
Truly, the woman was glad to be with the man. The man was very 
industrious, hunting all the time, and the woman, too, made all manner of 
things. At last, when they had been married for a long time, she knew 
that she was going to have a child; Then the man 
knew it. 
“Very well, I shall not hunt,” he said, “You would be working too 
much. Now that you are going to have a child, I do not want you to work. 
Perhaps the child we are to have will grow up,” he told her. 
“Yes,” the woman answered him. 
