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“Sister!” he called to her; “I have come!” 
Then that young woman said, “I have never had any younger brother. 
I have always been alone, as I am,” said the young woman, 
“As for me, truly, my nephew was taken away from me as I came,” 
he said. 
At once the young woman grew angry. She ran at the boy and struck 
him with an ax, killing him. She chopped him to bits. 
But some kind mice took pity on him, deciding to try to revive that 
boy who had been killed. 
Then, accordingly, “I, I shall take him away!” said a mouse, one of 
those which are large. 
Accordingly, they attended to him. For of old they had human form; 
because by all the Higher Powers they were aided is why it could happen 
so. Really, they restored him to life. 
Then, in the morning, that man who had to wife the young woman 
who was so mad and had slain her brother, spoke thus to her: “Go feed 
those Old Mouse Women,” he told her. 
Then, accordingly, the young woman went to give them food. When 
she entered, there she saw the boy she had killed. 
“So it seems that these evil old women have brought him back to 
life!” she said. 
Then the man said, “Never mind, do not kill him, my wife. After 
all, I can take him with me when I hunt,” he told her. 
So the young woman left him alone. Then, accordingly, the old women 
made their grandchild ready, that he might hunt. 
So, when that man was ready to go hunting, “Come here, young 
fellow! It would seem you are staying with people,” the child was told. 
Then the child made himself ready, and they set out, as he accom- 
panied that man on his hunt. 
Although they would come upon some creature's trail, “Not this one,” 
the other would say to him; “Pie is too small,” the other would say to him. 
Then really, when they saw the trail of another whose tracks were of 
enormous size, then the man went off pursuing this giant stag, and soon off 
there slew him. When the boy later arrived, the other had almost finished 
preparing the carcass. 
Then the man told him, “Roast this tripe,” he told him. 
So he roasted it. 
When he had cooked it done, he said to the man, “Let us eat it from 
either end.” 
Then, “What makes you say that?” said the man; “You, you are but 
a child, to be wanting to eat so much,” he told him. 
“But since I have no power of any kind!” said the boy. 
“Yes, very well,” the other said to him. 
Accordingly, as soon as he had cooked done that tripe, they each 
took hold of an end, and ate it. Then, when they had almost eaten it up, 
he snatched it away from the man. 
“Come, eat this, Thunderer!” he said. 
“Ho, what sort of thing will give its aid to you?” the man said to 
him; “Get to work!” he told him; “Up with you!” he told him. 
