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tdhk nik-dtasMn. aylsiyiniw klhMhk pdyak, ‘ nikitimdkdyimik dh-pdy- 
akukdtdt ! ’ itwdtsi, ta-tdpwdw. ha, nsim, pdskis dkutdh dhtsi d-wih-kana- 
wdyimiidn, " itdw ; “ niyd, ni^m, sipwdhid ! ” itdw, vnst d-sipwdhtdt, 
nlsoyak dh-ntaw-dtasJatsik. 
dkuyikuhk dh-iskwdk dtaydhkdwin. 
The two had a small tipi, and all the time they walked about, looking 
for things to eat, and never saw any people. They wished to see people. 
'Tf by any chance we see a man, we shall marry him, that he may 
kill things for us to eat,” said the elder sister; “Do not then reject him. 
Rather let us marry a man, no matter how ugly,” said the elder sister. 
“Yes,” said the younger. 
There they stayed on. 
Then at one time, after dark, as they were about to sleep, when the 
elder sister looked at the stars, one looked bright, and another was small 
and did not shine brightly. 
Thus spoke the elder sister: “Oh, little sister, would we might have 
them for husbands, yon stars! Would I might have as husband that one 
that shines so brightly, and you the smaller one,” she said to the other. 
“Yes,” answered she. 
What she thought was, “The one that shines brightly is handsome.” 
She got up and built the fire. 
“Little sister, get up!” she called to her. 
****** The elder sister 
pointed out her husband to the younger, smiling all the while with glad- 
ness at having a husband. Then she cooked; they had only berries to eat. 
Then the younger sister’s husband got up : he turned out to be a handsome 
young man. Oh, she was glad, that woman. Then, after a bit, when the 
elder one’s husband got up, he turned out to be a very old man with white 
hair. She did not like his being old. So then they stayed there. The men 
sat there all day. Only at nightfall they left the house and went away. 
YTien daybreak was near, they came back. Then they went to bed. In 
the morning, when they had eaten, the elder sister and the younger would 
always go tramping about, looking for berries and for wild turnips, for 
these were all they had to eat; but never did their husbands hunt. Then 
at one time, when they had been there quite a while, the elder sister did 
not recognize the land. It seemed to her as if she had never seen the land 
where they were. She was sad, and she disliked having for husband, as it 
turned out, an old man. Then she kept wandering about. And she was 
sad because there were no other people there where they dwelt ; this it was 
made her sad. Then at one time, when as usual they were wandering 
about, digging wild turnips here and there, they saw a lodge of old leather. 
“Little sister, now let us visit!” she said to her. 
When, accordingly, they went there, when they arrived, there was an 
old woman. 
“My grandchildren, my grandchildren!” she said. 
They went in. They gave her wild turnips to eat. 
