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away, then your father will kill me,” he must have told him; “Then at 
once do you go outside. 'And so it is you, my father!’ do you then say to 
him, as soon as you see him; ‘My father, for four nights let people not see 
me, women at least. You and my mother, too, I shall not see. If women 
see me, I shall sink into the earth. Try to do this,’ you will say to your 
father when you see him,” spoke that bear. 
“Tomorrow your father will come,” the bear must have said; “But 
he will kill me,” he must have told the lad; “As soon as he arrives and has 
killed me, then do you go outside,” he must have said. 
Then truly, the old man, for his part, as he came that way on the 
hunt, found the bear where it was staying. 
“Truly, I have found a bear,” he must have said. 
Accordingly, he went to kill it. There he took a long stick and prodded 
the hole that was in the ground. Truly, the bear came forth. Then, 
accordingly, he killed it. As soon as the bear had been killed, that youth 
leaped out from the hole. 
“And so this is my father!” he must have cried. 
Then, “What do you mean, youth?” 
“It is I, father!” he must have said; “Because the bear stole me from 
you, is why you lost me,” the youth must have said. 
When he said this, then the old man must have said, “At last I see my 
son!” 
“Father, there is only this, that you must carry me on your back,” 
said the youth. 
So the old man took his son on his back and carried him. 
“And until we get there, only four times you are to stop and rest,” 
said the youth to his father. 
So whenever the old man wearied under his burden, he rested, with 
his load on his back. The latter was very heavy, the more so, as the old 
man had tied the strap round his head, so glad was he to see his son. Then 
far off to one side he set up a tipi. 
“For four nights people are not to see me,” he said. 
So the old man went about borrowing unused tent-covering and four 
unused tent-poles. ************* in a way to 
cause wonder then the old man guarded his son, away from the camp; for 
he had told him to guard him for four nights. 
When he had guarded him for exactly three days and nights, as he 
slept, suddenly, “Father, and so you are nevermore to see me!” called the 
youth. 
Already his head was but a short way above the earth, into which he 
w^as sinking. 
Then once more, “And so then, it appears that never again shall a 
mortal man come back to life!” said that youth; “Under the ground man 
shall be laid away, as the generations go on!” said the youth, speaking for 
the last time. 
But as for the woman, she never again saw her son, who in this wise 
now had died. 
That is one sacred story. 
