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He stood still. Those young women over there broke into a run. 
Neither one was beaten. 
“Well, let us go to our dwelling!” he was told. 
They went to the place. He saw it, a tipi made of bits of old leather. 
They reached it. The youth was carrying a quiver. When they reached 
the tipi of old leather, the two pretty women went in. When they entered, 
over here, at the left of the door-flap, sat a little girl with mucus hanging 
from her nose, and her eyes all sticky; and lice were climbing about all 
over this little girl's face, and more, of course, on her head, and all over 
her body and legs and feet, all over were lice. He looked at her. 
When the youth had eaten, “What are you about seeking?” he was 
asked. 
“Why, I am going about looking for two women, one for my younger 
brother to marry, and one for me. I have already found a man to be our 
brother-in -law . ” 
“Indeed! So you are the one of whom they say, ‘He is seeking about 
for a wife,' you are the one of whom this is said!” the young w'omen told 
him, and laughed without cease. 
“Yes, it is I!” 
“Here is one for you to marry,” they said, pointing to the lousy girl. 
He looked at her. 
“She is too lousy. I cannot marry her,” he said. 
“Hoho, children, do you take him for your husband; he refuses me.” 
“Good!” 
Really, they took him for their husband; they both married him. 
Then presently, for no reason at all the Lousy One suddenly crawled 
about. 
“Ho!” 
They threw her back. 
“How is it he always cures me?” said the Lousy One; “Why, children, 
I dreamt that I was working; I dreamt that I should stop walking in my 
sleep as soon as I made something for my son-in-law to use as a blanket- 
robe. I long greatly to work,” said the little girl. Lousy One. 
Accordingly, in the morning he went hunting; he killed a jumping- 
deer. He brought it whole. 
“Here, now, my children, skin it!” she told them. 
They skinned it. 
“My children, go call my dog!” said Lousy One. 
The Lousy One called her dog. That dog turned out to be entirely 
of iron. 
“My dog, go eat. My son-in-law has killed something for you to eat.” 
The dog ate the jumping-deer. At once the dog grew big, when he 
had eaten that single meal. 
“Begone!” she said to it; “Go home!” she said to her dog; “So now, 
my children, go get my thongs for stretching hides!” she told them. 
Accordingly, they fetched them; they brought them. The thongs 
were of yellow metal. She stretched the hide. When she had tied it, she 
finished it; she flung it inside the lodge. Look you, very handsome was 
the youth's blanket that he was to have for his robe. 
Then, when night came again, again she walked in her sleep. 
