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So the woman threw them out of the lodge, and took her knife, and 
went out and cleaned the game. She eagerly set about skinning a young 
bull-calf. 
“Now my brother shall have a blanket-robe of this one,” she thought. 
When she had skinned it, she first brought it inside and fastened it to 
dry. Then she went again to cut up game. When noon came, she stopped 
to cook a meal, to give her brother to eat. When she had eaten, again she 
prepared skins of dwarf-moose, and tanned them, and also that buffalo- 
robe. By evening, she had tanned it. Then she stopped, to cook, and they 
ate. When they had eaten, and again she sewed, then, when it was quite 
dark, she finished the garments, and the youth put them on, while the 
woman went on preparing the stores of meat. When it was entirely dark, 
she went to bed. When she awoke, her brother was still asleep, and eagerly 
she set about cooking, that she might give her brother to eat. When she 
had finished cooking, her brother arose, and they ate. When they had 
eaten, this time he did not burn incense. She went out and set up a drying- 
frame, on which to hang her meats. Then, when she had filled that drying- 
frame, she set up other drying-frames, on which to place her stores of meat. 
She worked a long time at placing the meat, li^en she had done, she 
prepared hides, intending to make clothes for her brother, and she finished 
them and ornamented them with quill-work. 
When they had stayed there a long time, the youth spoke as follows: 
“Now, sister, is it only we who look like this?” he asked her. 
“Dear me, little brother, in truth there are many people who exist in 
the same form as you and I; but they are not of decent character; they 
always challenge each other to contend, and when they have defeated 
each other, they kill each other. It was because I hated this, that I took 
you away and brought you here when you were small, thinking of you, 
‘Perhaps he will grow up.’ Here, in the direction of noon are many people, 
but they are of evil purposes,” she told him; “Women are poised aloft in 
a nest, and whenever any youth arrives there, he is urged to climb up, 
being told that if anyone reaches them, he may marry them. But before 
they reach the goal, the youths fall down, falling to their death. Then 
those people eat them. This is no good thing. And here, in the east, 
yonder is a great town; the people there run races, and when anyone is 
outrun, he is destroyed, for these people, too, eat each other. That is why, 
‘Would that I might bring him up I’ was my thought concerning you. It 
will be no light thing for you to go anywhere,” she told her brother. 
“Now then, sister, tomorrow I shall go forth,” he told her. 
The woman wept, for she hated her brother’s going forth, thinking, 
“Perhaps he will be destroyed.” 
So, when night came, she went to bed. Early she arose to cook for her 
brother’s departure. When the youth had eaten, he made himself ready 
and rose to his feet, hanging his little flute round his neck, placing it to 
hang on his back. 
“Now then, sister, whenever anyone is to name me, ‘Flute-Bearer’ I 
shall be called,” said the youth, as he stepped out of the lodge and went 
forth. 
He set out in the direction of noon, toward where the women were 
poised aloft in the nest, for them he was going to see. When he had slept 
twice, he reached the town. 
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