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When she awoke from her trance, again, “Oh, my children, it is be- 
cause I am longing for work! Then I shall stop walking in my sleep!” 
In the morning he hunted; he killed a deer. He brought it entire. 
Then, again, “My children, skin it!” she said. 
It was skinned for her. 
“Now go call my dog. He is to have a meal,” she said. 
The dog ate its meal. It ate all. Then truly very large grew that dog. 
It could not get into the tent. It had grown large, now. 
“Oh, my children, it is because only now and then I work, and little 
at a time, that I am so beautiful,” she said. 
Then she finished this robe, too. In the night again she walked in 
her sleep. Quickly she came out of her trance. So in the morning he hunted. 
He killed a bull buffalo. The youth was hungry; so he took a small bit 
of meat from the fleshy part of the leg and roasted it for himself and ate it. 
When he had eaten, “ ‘Even as strong as I am, so strong let this ray 
grandchild be!’ my grandmother did say of me! Let me now be strong 
enough to handle this buffalo which I wish to drag!” he said, remembering 
what she had said to him, whom he had carried on his back. 
So he dragged home his load, thinking, “Now she will have work!” 
So he got it there. 
“Oho, now I shall have a jolly time!” cried the Lousy One. 
So, when it had been skinned, “Go call my dog!” she said. 
It was gone for and called. 
When it came, “Eat, my dog!” she said. 
Then the dog, sniffing at it a little, merely walked in a circle round 
it; it would not eat it. 
“Why will not this creature eat, mother, this dog of yours?” 
“Yah, my children, does he not miss something?” she asked. 
Then, “Did you not throw away anything?” they asked their husband. 
“I cut a little from the fleshy part of the thigh and ate it,” he said. 
“Yah, and here was I thinking, ‘Doubtless a human man is he whom 
I have as son-in-law!’ So he is a Windigo! At any rate, eat the leavings!” 
she said to it. 
It ate it. It finished it. Then truly big was that dog. 
By dark she had finished the buffalo-robe. 
“This let my son-in-law have as his sleeping-robe,” she said. 
This night again she walked in her sleep, because she longed for work. 
In the morning he set out. He went to a hilly place. He saw a bear’s 
den. He went up to it. 
“Grandfather, I have come to take your body, for I am being chal- 
lenged!” he said to it. 
“A moment, my grandchild! When you now slay me, then take two 
bristles from round my mouth. When you reach your dwelling, then 
throw one into the fire. ‘Come try to find this!’ say then to her. Indeed, 
she who will challenge you has spirit power. Tomorrow, taking the first 
turn, you will try to find her lice. If you find one, then you will have 
won from her the right to take her daughters home with you,” the bear 
told him. 
With that it came out from its lair. He killed it. Oh, he dragged it 
home. He took those two bristles. One, as he entered, he threw into the 
fire. One he kept. 
