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dh-kih-ayat. mdmaskdts dkwah kanawdyimdw uphimd ukusisah awa kisdy- 
iniw ; ndd-tipiskdw ayisk itik kita-‘ka-kanawdyimdt. 
mwdhtsi nistu-tipiskdw dh-kanawdyimdt, dh-nipdt, kayahtd, “ ndhidh, 
dkus dtsik dna dkd imhkdts kd-wdpamiyin ! ” itwdw awa uskimkiw. 
dsay apisds pikuh kl-sdkiskwdw, askihk dh-kutdwaskamiJdt, 
dkusi dsa mlna kihtwdm, “ dkusi ds dnih namuya wdhkdts kitah-dpisisin 
aylsiyiniw ! ” itwdw dm awa uskinlkiw ; “ itdmaskamik kita-nahindw 
ayisiyiniw, ispdhk uhpikihitutsih I ” itwdw , iskwdydts dh-pikiskwdt awa 
uskinlkiw. 
mdka wiya awa iskwdw ^ namuya dsa uhtsi wdpamdw ukusisah, dkus 
dh-isih-nipiyit. 
dwaku pdyak dtaydhkdwin. 
Of old men were placed here on earth by the Powers in this wise: 
they were pitied and befriended by every kind of thing, by as many things 
as are seen, and by the things that are invisible. They dreamt of every 
kind of thing. Even the bears taught them things. That is why the old- 
time people had manitou power. 
Now I shall tell a sacred story. 
Once upon a time, long ago, a certain man had one child, and it seems 
that he dearly loved him and took good care of him. Then at one time, 
as his wife was working out of doors, suddenly they lost their child. They 
could not make out how they had lost track of him. They were greatly 
distressed at having lost their child. The little boy had been their first 
child, and the only one. They did not know how they had lost him. 
Having made inquiry everywhere in vain, at last they gave him up. 
Now I shall tell of the child, how he managed to stay alive. He 
came to some place or other; it appears that a bear had stolen the child. 
Soon he went about with the bear in summer-time. 
Then at one time that man said, “Perhaps after all my son is alive!” 
he would always say. 
Every now and then he would dream that he saw his son. 
Then in winter-time the bear would take care of the child. As often 
as anywhere men performed their worship, at once the bear knew it. He 
knew even when a pipe was filled for him. 
This was what he must have said always to the child: “Grandchild, 
again I am being invited,” he must have said. 
So in this way the child stayed alive. In time he looked upon the 
bear, his companion, as a human person. 
Then finally, when the latter had brought him up through many years 
and he was near to manhood, the bear said to him, “Now you have almost 
grown up. Soon now you will go outside,” he must have told him; “Your 
father, this coming spring, when the last of the snow is about to melt 
^ i.e., it was his mother who had violated the command; either the tale is laconically 
told or I missed a sentence above. 
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