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He said to his brother, “The fact is that I want to ask you something,” 
he told him. 
“Very well, ask me, brother,” the other answered him. 
“Why, when I thought of you, ‘He loves me,’ did you do that to me, 
when you nearly killed me? What was the reason?” he asked him. 
That woman saw nothing to do but go out of the tent. 
“Ho, do not!” said that man to his wife; “Do not go out! First let 
my brother finish what he has to say,” he told her. 
When the other had finished asking him, “Now, brother, I really did 
love you; and your sister-in-law here also loved you. I was glad that your 
sister-in-law took such good care of you. ‘You were badly mistaken; 
when I was alone in the tent your 3''oung brother came in 
she told me. Then I was angry, and ‘Truly, 
his character is bad!' I thought of you, seeing how much we had loved 
you!” he told him. 
“Dear me, no, brother! I know how much you loved me. It is true 
that when I came and entered your tipi your wife was sitting alone. When 
I wanted to go out again, ‘First eat,’ she told me. ‘No, you are alone in 
the tent,’ I said to her. ‘Oh, it does not matter that I am alone, seeing 
how fond we are of you.’ So I sat down and she gave me food. When I 
had eaten, and was rising to my feet, ‘First let me comb your hair,’ she 
said to me. ‘No, you are alone in the tent,’ I said to her. When I tried to 
go on out, she blocked me in the doorway 
. . she said to me; ‘If you do as I ask, much as I have loved you, I shall 
take even better care of you.’ ‘Why, how could I do such a thing? My 
brother is so good to me,’ I said to her. ‘He does not need to know of it,’ 
she answered me. Then, when she stepped aside, I came out. I was 
embarrassed, for I looked upon all my sisters-in-law even as upon my 
mother, when they were so good to me,” he told him; “It was for this 
reason that for a long time I did not come into jmur tent, because she who 
sits here had put me to shame. Well, this is what I wanted to know, for, 
‘Why has he done this to me?’ was my thought concerning you. Now 
then, take home with you the animal that is tethered here; I give him to 
3mu,” he told him. 
“Thanks, thanks!” said the elder brother. 
But he was angry. 
“Come, let us go home!” he said to his wife. 
When they had gone out, as they came to their tent yonder, after 
tying up the horse, he said to his wife, “Let us go over that hill there.” 
When they had sat down there, “And so it appears that you are of a 
most evil nature! It appears that you were the one who had that desire! 
Remember, I loved my little brother! And here I came near killing what 
was dear to me!” he said to her, and taking a knife, stabbed her repeatedly, 
and killed her. 
Then he went home. 
Then that youth was given his sister-in-law, the young woman whom 
he had asked for a piece of leather; his elder brother, her husband, gave 
her to him. So he had this sister-in-law of his to wife. 
In this way, then, horses came to be, for the first time since the begin- 
ning of the world. 
This, now, is the end of the sacred story, of the story. 
