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Then, shooting an arrow, “Come, uncle, on this we others shall stand 
as we go. In the grove this side of where we live, there we shall come to 
earth.” 
Truly they went along, two of them standing on his arrow. Toward 
evening they came to earth there, and from that point walked on. As 
that woman was at work out of doors, presently she beheld coming forth 
her brother and her children, the children walldng at either side of their 
uncle. 
At once that woman said to him, “Goodness! My brother is alive!” 
and went to welcome him, and they went indoors and she set about pre- 
paring a feast. Presently her husband came in. 
“Splendid, splendid!” he said to him; “Truly, after long delay I see 
my wife’s brother!” said that man. 
So there they stayed. Those children did nothing but play with their 
uncle, and now never went off anywhere, but played with their uncle 
indoors. 
“Do not thus with your uncle! You treat him too much as your play- 
fellow!” said the woman to her children, but, “No!” said that youth; 
“Let my nephews treat me as their comrade at play; it is to them I owe 
my life,” he told his sister. 
So at last they were there a long time. That man was always hunting. 
Then at one time he did not come home. When he had not arrived by the 
next morning, “Now, my nephews, I shall look for your father,” he told 
them. 
“Very well.” 
So he sought him. Where he came upon his trail, he tracked him; 
it appeared he had come upon the trail of a moose ; this moose his brother- 
in-law had tracked. At last he saw a hill over a ravine in which was a 
spring of water. To that place it seemed that his brother-in-law had gone. 
When he came to it, then from where the spring flowed forth, a Great 
Serpent thrust out its head with gaping jaws, and drew him in and swal- 
lowed him bodily. Whom did he see but his brother-in-law sitting there, 
alive. He, too, did not die. He sat with his brother-in-law, until it must 
have been night. 
When he did not come home by next morning, of those twins the elder, 
“Let me go look for our uncle!” 
“Be on your guard, my brother!” said the younger lad. 
Accordingly, the elder brother set out. There where it appeared that 
his father had trailed the moose, there he walked on. At last he came to 
that spring. When he came near, the Great Serpent thrust forth its head, 
gaping, and sucked him in. When he doubled himself up, thinking of the 
knives that grew forth from his elbows, “With these I shall cut him to 
pieces,” he swung them awkwardly, and was swallowed whole. There 
sat his uncle and his father. 
Thus came another night. In the morning the younger brother set 
out to look for his elder brother. He came to where it appeared that 
he had trailed a moose. He too trailed it. When he came to the spring, 
as he got near to where the Great Serpent had thrust forth its head, again 
it thrust out its head. 
“This is the one who destroyed them,” he thought. 
