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When the time came, they did not sleep, what with their grief for that 
woman. At last day broke. That youth made himself ready. 
“So now, brothers, I am going to look for your sister-in-law,” he said. 
“Yes,” said the young men. 
So then that youth set out to track his wife, and walked on. And the 
other young men stayed where they were; they did not care to hunt, for 
they were grieved that that woman had gone away and were sad at her 
absence. But that youth who was tracking his wife, at last came to a point 
where he could not see the signs of where she had walked; it seemed to 
him just as if she had risen from the ground and taken wing. He stood 
there and looked about him. He did not know where his wife had gone. 
Knowing no other way, he took a hair of fur and blew upon it. 
“Now, whithersoever my wife is bound, thither shall I be wafted! I 
shall be a hair of fur!” he said. 
And truly, he was borne aloft by the wind. Presently he saw where 
there was a rocky cliff. There, at the summit, he was put down by the 
breeze. Thereupon, when he rose to his feet, he saw again where his wife 
had walked. Then, when he trailed her, and came to a rise in the land, as 
he came round to the other side, there he beheld a large town. He saw 
many people. There he sat down. He sat there for a long time, looking 
at all the tipis. Presently a woman came walking his way. When she had . 
come nearer, he recognized his wife. He was very happy when she came. 
At once she kissed him, and, “Truly, I am glad that you have come,” 
she said to him; “You mus.t know, it is because your eldest brother is 
senseless that I went away and have come here,” she told him. 
“What did my eldest brother do to you?” he asked. 
“At that time, when you were hunting, and I was going out to gather 
wood, to that place came your brother, and said to me, 
Then, off he went. So then I drew 
out that arrow; I laid it there, as I went away. T love my husband,’ was 
my thought, ‘but his brother has put me to shame,’ and so I needs came 
back here,” she said. 
“And now, I have come to get you,” she told him. 
Then they went to her home. When they reached the tipi, those 
people were glad. It was a large tipi which stood in the centre of all, to 
which they came, and, when they entered, there he saw a great many 
young women. 
“Why!” they cried; “Our brother-in-law has come!” they cried, as he 
took his seat. 
Then they all greeted him. 
Thus spoke that old man: “Dear me!” he said; “Surely, your oldest 
brother is foolish to have treated his sister-in-law in this wise, so that 
you had to suffer much hardship in coming here,” he said; “See, because 
you were pitiable, having no one to care for you, was why I sent my daughter 
there, saying to her, ‘Go take care of those young men,’ and so she went, 
and then your brother played the fool,” said the old man; “But I am 
glad you have come to us,” he said. 
There stayed that youth. Then, in time, he would go away and sit 
on a hilltop and look at all the tipis. After a while his wife would come to 
him there on the hilltop. At last he grew sad, because he did not see his 
brothers, having been there so long. 
