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Oh, the old man was glad. 
“Wife, go tell our son that his younger brother has arrived! Let him 
invite the other young men to come set up this tent of ours off to one side of 
the camp. We have a little red cloth, I shall go about asking for some, 
and for incense grass. When you have told our son, then put the berries 
into water,” he told her. 
With that the old man set out to go about asking for the things. 
Then she went off and told her son. “My son, your younger brother 
has arrived and has been seen. ‘Let them set up a tent off to one side,' 
it seems he has said; so you are to invite the other young men.” 
The young man was glad, and so were those women glad that their 
brother-in-law was alive. So they went and put up the tipi off to one side. 
By the time they had finished setting up the tent and arranging the interior, 
the old man came with the things he had been requisitioning. When they 
had the tent all in good shape, then that youth came from yonder place. 
He left his horses behind. Then, when he came into the tent, and the 
incense was being burned for him, those people rejoiced that the young 
man had arrived. And there were all the things he wanted; so now he 
called the old men to eat the stewed berries and to smoke, and he instructed 
his father to raise aloft those stewed berries to his grandfather, and to hold 
the stem of his pipe in that direction, but that all those who sat there were 
to eat those stewed berries. He did not summon that elder brother of his 
who had stabbed him; and he did not come, for he stood in awe of him 
and feared him. Then, when they had done eating the berries, then he 
went out of the tent, and fetched his horses. Then, when he came bringing 
them, and all the horses followed at his heels, those people greatly rejoiced, 
for never had they seen anything like those horses. They wondered 
greatly at their appearance; for this was their first sight of them. 
When he had brought them there, he lit those strands of incense grass, 
just as if he were making a cloud of smoke, as an incense offering to the 
horses; and to as many youths as were there, “Help me; put these incense 
strands into the horses' mouths,” he said. 
Accordingly, they helped him. By the time it was growing dark, they 
had done working at them. Then, the next morning, they tied pieces of 
red cloth round the necks of all the horses, anti he tied a garment's length 
round the neck of his own steed. When then he let them go loose, they 
never went far off in their grazing; for now the horses ate grasps. When 
the fourth night had passed, he summoned the people, one man from each 
and every tent. Only that brother of his who had stabbed him he did 
not invite. When all had come there, he gave each one a horse, until he 
had gone the round. To the younger of his two elder brothers he gave 
two. And to his father, also, two. He kept out one poor one, thinking, 
“This I shall give to that brother of mine,” and for himself he kept only 
that stallion. So much for this. 
Then the people went and set up that tent for him in the centre of the 
camp, and his father gave him the chieftancy, that he might rule over 
all the people. In the morning then he summoned his elder brother, the 
one who had stabbed him, together with his wife. 
As they entered, “Oh, come in!” he said to them; “Oh, I am merely 
putting you to needless trouble!” he said to his elder brother. 
When his sister-in-law would greet him, he paid no attention to her. 
