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Once upon a time, in a place where there were many people, a certain 
chief had three children, sons. Two of them had wives. As for the youngest 
son, this youth was handsome. He, then, had no wife, but both of his 
elder brothers, as well as his sisters-in-law loved him very much; he was 
cared for like an own child, so beloved was he, as he went in turn to the 
three tipis. 
Then at one time — his eldest brother’s wife was especially fond of 
him' — when he had become quite a young man, as once he entered his 
eldest brother’s dwelling, there was that woman alone in the tent. 
When, accordingly, he made to go out, “Wait!” his sister-in-law said 
to him; “First eat a bit,” she told him. 
So she gave him something to eat. When he had eaten, she wanted 
to comb his hair, but he arose to leave the tent. 
“Oh, but I meant to comb your hair, you know!” his sister-in-law 
said to him. 
“No, for you are alone in the tent,” he told her. 
At that the woman rose to her feet and stood in the doorway, blocking 
the passage for her brother-in-law. 
She said to him, “Brother-in-law, fond as I have been of you from the 
beginning, what I want to tell you is, 
With that the young man went out of the tent. 
Then the woman thought, “If, likely enough, he tells his brother about 
this, my husband will be very angry,” she thought; “I had better tell my 
husband,” she thought; “Before he tells his brother, I had better tell him 
myself,” she thought. 
When her husband came into the tent, she told him thus: “My hus- 
band, it was not in this way that I meant it, when from the first I showed 
affection to your young brother 
she told him; “I was greatly surprised 
when he spoke in this way to me; that is why I am telling you of it. And 
so now I shall no longer be able to feel any fondness for your young brother,” 
she told him. 
At once that man was distressed. 
“It was not in this way that I meant it, when I would say to you, 
‘Try to be fond of my young brother’,” he told her. 
Now the young man was embarrassed by what his sister-in-law had 
said to him. He did not feel like going there any more. 
“It really seems that my young brother did intend something like 
that, seeing that he does not come to my tent any more,” thought that 
eldest brother. 
He was very angry at what his wife had told him. Then at one time, 
when the young man, after a long interval, did go there, as he was about 
to step into the tent, his eldest brother saw him. He seized a knife, think- 
ing, “I shall kill my young brother.” As the latter was coming in, and he 
made to stab him, the young man threw himself back. He managed to 
run the knife into him a little ways. He stabbed him in the abdomen, not 
deeply. The youth fled out of the tent; his sister-in-law who had slandered 
him kept crying out the while. Other women came out of their tipis and 
ran at the man who was pursuing his young brother. The man was seized 
and held. So he gave up his intent. He was taken home. When he went 
into his tipi, other men came in to admonish him. 
