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because she had nothing to give her brother to eat, was why she disliked 
it. The next morning, when she went to -her snares, she had not killed 
anything. 
When she came to their dwelling and was shaking out her moccasins, 
for they were full of snow, she cried, “Oh dear, oh dear! Really I am sorry 
I have nothing to give my brother to eat!” she said; “Now that he is a 
young man, he in his turn ought to kill something for us to eat; so I thought, 
at least, but it has not turned out that way,” said the woman, as she took 
up some faggots to put on the fire. “My brother will hear me,” was her 
idea in speaking so. 
Thereupon she went inside and put fuel on the fire. She sat down. 
The youth arose from where he lay, and took the flute and his arrows. 
Also he took some dried incense-grass and pushed back the fire. There 
he placed the grass, and when it began to make smoke, he held the little 
flute over it, perfuming it with the incense. 
At the same time he spoke as follows: “Dear me, sister, it is because 
I feel sorry for you that I have not been killing anything, because I thought 
you would have too much work,” he told his sister; “Throw open the 
door-flap!” 
The woman opened the doorway, and the youth played on his flute. 
When he had done playing music, he hung it up. At once there came 
running dwarf-moose in great number, and as they ran past the doorway, 
he kept shooting them. He stopped only when he had used up his arrows. 
He killed a great many of them. Then they ran away. 
“There, sister, go get my arrows. If they are bloody, wipe them off.” 
Accordingly, the woman went outside. When she looked to see, he 
had killed many dwarf-moose. 
“Splendid! Now my brother will eat!” she said, as she kept pulling 
out the arrows and wiping them. 
W'hen she brought them indoors, there was her brother undressed, 
wrapped up in his blanket-robe. When he had taken back his arrows, 
then, of his clothes, he said, “Sister, throw them out of the lodge!” 
W^hen she had thrown them out, she took her knife and went out. 
When she looked about to see the things she had thrown out, she did not 
see them. Then she set about skinning and cutting up the game. When 
she had cleaned those dwarf-moose, she set eagerly about her cooking. 
W^hen she had eaten, she took four of the skins of the dwarf -moose to dry. 
Then she brought in her meat. But some was left outside, for he had killed 
too many. W'hen she had arranged it all, she came in, and again attended 
to her cooking, even while working the hides of the dwarf-moose. Towards 
evening, she had finished tanning them, and began sewing clothes for her 
brother. When it was almost time for them to go to bed, she had finished 
them. She handed them to her brother. The youth put on the clothes. 
Then she dried some more. Then, when the youth went to bed, the woman 
kept on working the moose-hides. At last, when she grew sleepy, she went 
to bed. Early in the morning, when she awoke, her brother was already 
sitting up. Accordingly, she cooked. When they had eaten, the youth 
again took some fire and burned incense to his little flute. 
“Open the door-flap, sister!” he said to her. 
When she had opened it, he blew on his flute. This time he brought 
deer to his call, and gave chase to them. Again, only when he had used 
up his arrows, did they flee. 
