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stores of dried meat, and in time making moccasins for all those men, and 
clothes out of the hides, and, what was more, putting beadwork on their leg- 
gings and their coats. Those young men were very glad to have their 
sister-in-law take such good care of them. They were very fond of the 
woman. She worked very hard. 
Time passed ; she had been there a long while. 
Then, when all were hunting, Matchihkiwis went circling about the 
place where his sister-in-law was wont to gather firewood, and this was 
his thought: he 
thought, as he hid from her there. 
Then, when that woman went to gather faggots, there she saw her 
husband's brother coming toward her. 
that 
was why she went away. 
Then, as for those young men, when he came home whose wife she 
was, lo, their tent was without a fire. He did not see his wife. 
'T wonder why she is not here?” he thought. 
When he looked for her, he could not find her. At last he went to 
where she used to gather faggots 
and then he saw his brother’s arrow lying 
there, covered with blood, and he saw where his wife had walked, as she 
went away. He followed her trail where the blood at intervals was on the 
ground. At last it grew dark before he had done. So he went back and 
came to their dwelling. Then he built a fire and stayed there. He grieved 
much for his wife, who had left him. Finally all the young men arrived; 
only Matchihkiwis did not arrive. The young men did not see their 
brother’s wife. 
One said to him, “Brother, where is my sister-in-law?” Thus they 
asked. 
“I do not know,” said that youth; “To my surprise, when I came 
home, she was not here; and when I sought her, I did not find her. Then 
I went to where she is in the habit of gathering wood; there I saw that 
our oldest brother had come 
At last I saw an arrow of our brother’s lying there. It was covered with 
blood. Then, it appeared, your sister-in-law had gone away. I trailed 
her; there was blood every little ways, where she had walked, but at 
last I came home,” said that youth. 
“Heavens and earth!” said those young men; “And so again our 
eldest brother has been guilty of unseemly conduct!” they said. 
They were sorry that that woman had gone away. They sat there; 
they did not care to eat, because that woman had gone away. When it 
was entirely dark, then Matchihkiwis arrived. When he came in, he saw 
that all his brothers were sitting in dejection. 
“Brother, why is my sister-in-law not here?” he asked. 
“I wonder why. Perhaps she has gone somewhere or other,” said 
that youth. 
“Heavens and earth!” cried Matchihkiwis; he was too sorry, just as 
though he had had nothing to do with it; for this Matchihkiwis was a 
crazy sort of person. 
