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When he went inside, he saw no one. So he went out and walked 
round the place, and there he saw that a woman must have gone by. Then 
he followed her tracks to where she had gathered wood; he saw no one. He 
went back again; he went indoors and built his fire, to cook the meal. 
When he had made his fire and was sitting on his couch, soon he knew that 
there were some things under his mat. When he uncovered them, he 
beheld some moccasins. He took them and looked at them; they were 
very pretty. He was glad ; he put them carefully away. 
He said, “And so a woman has come here!” he thought; “My brothers 
had better not see them,” he thought. 
When he tried them on, why, they fitted him well. And then his 
brothers began to arrive, one after the other, until all of them had come; 
but he did not care to tell them about it. 
Then, when they had slept, on the next day, early in the morning 
that youth went out to hunt. The others, too, one after the other at 
intervals, set out, for those young men did not keep each other company 
when they hunted, but did their hunting each by himself. 
Then that youth thought, “Perhaps it is because she wants to marry 
me that this woman has come here.” 
Where he killed a buffalo, he took the tongue, and the best parts of 
the flesh, and one thigh-bone, and the smallest stomach, and went home. 
“Perhaps, if that woman comes, she will eat this stomach; and she 
will split this thigh-bone and eat it,” he thought, as he went home. 
He walked fast, thinking to come upon the young woman while she was 
there. Then, towards evening, when he arrived, again he saw a great 
amount of firewood lying there. He saw smoke rising from their tipi. 
“Perhaps she is there,” he thought. 
When he entered, he saw no one, but it was plain that someone had 
swept. He was glad. Then he fed his fire, to cook their meal. Then, 
as he sat there while cooking, it seemed to him that again there was some- 
thing where the moccasins had been. When he took it out, this too was a 
pair of moccasins. Again he was glad, as he looked at them. They were 
very pretty, embroidered with quill-work. He put them away, thinking, 
“My brothers had better not see them.” Then, when those young men 
arrived, one after the other, they saw a great amount of firewood. They 
were glad to think of their young brother, “Truly, in a short time he gathers 
a great deal of wood.” 
The oldest one, Matchihkiwis, said, “Truly I am glad that there is 
so much firewood.” 
“Yes, indeed,” said the young men. 
Then that youth did not care to tell what had happened. Then it 
grew dark again. When they had eaten, and had sat a while, telling all 
kinds of stories, they went to bed, 
“Now then, I shall get up early,” thought that youth; “I shall set 
out early,” was his thought. 
So he got up early, to go hunting. When he had eaten, he made ready 
to go hunting. He was very happy. 
“Perhaps it is because she wants to marry me that this woman has 
come here,” he thought. 
So then, where he killed a buffalo, he took the best parts of the meat. 
When he went home, he kept running, for he thought, “Perhaps I shall 
