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“Why has he done thus to his young brother, when he is known to 
be fond of him?“ 
He told his story: 
... is why I have done this to him,” he told them. 
Then the young man was brought into his father’s dwelling and given 
medical treatment. It turned out that he stayed a long time, suffering 
pain, and nursed by the younger of his elder brothers, and by his sisters- 
in-Iaw. This brother had two wives. They were very much distressed at 
what had been done to the youth, their brother-in-law, for they loved him 
like an own child. “Likely enough he will die,” was the general thought 
concerning that young man. In spite of the curative treatment given him, 
for a long time, in the outcome, he was ill. At last the man took his 
young brother to his own tent, to nurse him, thinking, “It is too much of a 
strain for my father and mother to nurse my young brother; over here 
we can nurse him undisturbed.” Accordingly, they nursed his young 
brother. The man who had stabbed his brother never came to see him, 
nor did his wife. Now that it was too late, the woman who had slandered 
her brother-in-law was sorry and wanted to see him. But whenever she 
said to her husband, “Let me go there,” he would beat her, for he was 
jealous, and even for that had done thus to his brother. 
At last the young man was on the way to recovery. 
“Surely, when I get well, my brother will go even so far as to kill me. 
If I get well, I shall go away from here. What matter if somewhere or 
other I go to my destruction?” thought the youth as he grew better. 
But when he became well, those sisters-in-law of his and his brother 
never slept, but took turns in attending to him and not sleeping of nights. 
Once, when the younger of his sisters-in-law was watching, toward dawn, 
he perceived that she was sleepy. 
He said to her, “Sister-in-law!” 
“What is it?” 
“Please give me a small piece of leather and a sinew and an awl.” 
“What do you want to do?” she asked him. 
“It is my moccasin which is torn that I want to mend,” he told her. 
“Take it off and give it to me; let me sew it. You are never to do 
your own sewing, even when you are well; do you suppose you will be 
allowed to do your work now that you are barely alive?” she asked him; 
“In any case, this is a little thing,” she told him. 
But the young woman was very sleepy. At last she gave her brother- 
in-law what he asked of her. Then the young man cut from it, cut the 
leather to shape. As soon as he saw that his sister-in-law was asleep, he 
took all of those things; he took his quiver. 
Thus he went out of the tent and away, thinking, “I may as well go 
to my destruction, it matters not where. In any case my brother will 
always despise me.” 
So he set out, with no destination. 
When that man woke up, he did not see his young brother. 
He roused his wives, asking them, “Where is my brother?” 
“The last I know was that he said he was going to mend his moccasins; 
and though I kept asking him to give them to me, he would not do it, until 
at last I gave him the things he wanted to use. Then, when I lay down, I 
must have fallen asleep and not noticed his going out,” the one told him. 
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