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“Very well,” the other answered him. 
Then he went toward where that Lousy One was, and there from over 
the hill came the young women. 
“Hey! Stand still where you are!” they said to him; “The one who 
outdistances the other, her you will take to wife,” he was told. 
They ran toward him. Neither was left behind; at the same time 
both reached him. 
“Now let us go to our dwelling!” they said to him. 
So they went there. There, when they entered, that little girl again 
looked as she had looked before. 
“Hey, what are you going about seeking, like this?” 
“Oh, the fact is, I am looking for a woman to marry,” he said. 
“Then marry this one here!” 
He looked at her. 
“She is too lousy,” he said of her. 
“Oho, my children, it must be you he has in mind for himself! You 
take him to husband!” she said of him. 
Then, when night came, he lay down to sleep. That little girl walked 
in her sleep. 
“Greatly I am longing to work! Much I am longing to work! It seems 
as if some lazy person has come here to stay as son-in-law!” said the little 
girl. 
In the morning at once he went off. Very quickly he came to where 
his elder brother had found and killed the bear. He walked to the spot. 
“Grandfather, I have come to fetch you, for I am engaging in a con- 
test this day!” he said to it. 
“Yes, my grandchild! But first do you take two hairs from round my 
mouth. To be sure, I do not think you lacking in power of your own. 
Your elder brother was deceived by an unfair stroke. Now, as soon as 
you have brought me there, she will send for her dog, who is an instrument 
of her power,” it told him; and so, “Very well, come now!” it told him. 
He clubbed it; he killed it. He dragged his burden home. Very 
early in the morning he arrived with it. As soon as he entered, he threw 
one of those things into the fire; one he kept on his person. 
Then, when the game had been skinned for her, “My children, go get 
my ax, my hide-scraper, my stick for treating hides, my pounding-stone, 
my thongs for stretching hides, as many as are my tools. And you, my 
daughter, go round and look for my son, your elder brother,” she told 
them; and then, finally, “Now, do you call my dog,” she told one of her 
daughters; “For I do not forget that he said, ‘She is too lousy!' ” 
For she had been angered by the speech; that was why she was send- 
ing for her son. Then, w’hen that dog arrived, the youth threw himself 
toward the door. The bearskin had not even been stretched, when the dog 
arrived. Then, when it came into the tent, though no harm had been done 
to it, it had its tail between its legs, and cringed as it came, just as though 
it feared something. 
Then He Who Had the Saskatoon Stick spoke of it thus; thus he 
spoke of that dog: “Is it on this creature that you rely?” he said of that 
dog, and touched it with the stick. 
That dog broke into bits; it crumbled into tiny bits of metal. 
