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“Where can our sister have got these berries?” asked the youths. 
They marvelled at this, that in winter they were eating fresh berries, 
and because that young woman always had her dwelling up aloft in the 
nest. As soon as the young men got up, they went away, for every day 
they did nothing but hunt, for this was their work, to hunt every kind of 
creature. Again the young woman came down. 
Again she said to the boy, her brother, “I am going berrying again,” 
said the young woman. 
Accordingly, again the young woman set out, flying. Again she 
arrived in the land across the sea. Again in the place from which she had 
taken berries, she set about her berrying. Behold, when again she had 
filled one berrying basket, again the Thunderer’s noise was heard. Again 
he frightened her out of her senses. Again she saw, when she came to, 
that youth whom she had seen. ************* 
They stayed there all day, for she liked that youth. 
Towards evening again she made ready to return home. She went 
home, again flying. When it was nearly dark, she came to their dwelling. 
Again she set about stewing berries. Again she went up aloft. Those 
young men were always very glad when they had berries to eat. 
As soon as the next day broke, again they went hunting. As soon as 
her elder brothers had departed, the young woman came down again, to 
attend to their clothes and their moccasins. 
“Once more I shall go a-berrying,” she must have told her little 
brother. 
Accordingly, again she went forth. Again she arrived at yonder 
place; she set about berrying where twice before she had found berries. 
Again when once she had filled a berry-basket, again the Thunderer made 
himself loudly heard. And when again suddenly she had regained her 
senses, when she had come to, ************** 
Towards evening, again she took home berries. Again she set about 
stewing them. When she had stewed the berries, she went back up into 
her nest. When they arrived, the young men marvelled that every day 
they ate fresh berries. 
They said, “Whence does our sister get fresh berries?” 
Again, as soon as day had dawned, they set out, having eaten. Again, 
when every one of them had departed, the young woman told her little 
brother that she was going off once more. Accordingly, once more she 
set out and flew. When she arrived there where she had been gathering 
berries, just as she began to pick, again the Thunderer began to give his 
sound. Again the young woman was frightened out of her senses by his 
sound. And when she came to, once more she saw there the youth. That 
youth was very glad that the young woman always came there to him. 
« Though sho arrivcd at their dwel- 
ling, she was not at all able to climb up to the nest in which she lodged. 
Whenever she tried to climb, she failed. She needs sat down by the door. 
“W^hat can be the matter?” she thought. The fact was, no doubt, that this 
young woman was so treated by the Higher Powers of purpose, because she 
was thought too much of by her elder brothers; ****** 
As soon as the eldest brother arrived at their lodge, he must have 
peeped in, and what did he see but their young sister sitting there, * * 
