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“Oh, woman, I want to tell you this! ********** 
She will kill you. Run away!” it told her. 
She was frightened by these its words. 
“But where can I go now?” 
“Off here, toward the north,” it told her. 
“Yes.” 
Then she took off her sleeves. 
“Now, my sleeves, gather faggots! When you hear my elder sister 
calling to you, tell her, ‘Wait a bit!’ Tell her, T am just getting wood.’ 
If she says to you, ‘Hurry!’ then, ‘Wait a bit! I want to split a lot of it 
first, so that I can bring it without delay,’ do you tell her.” 
Accordingly, those sleeves then gathered wood. The woman fled. 
Presently, “Little sister!” came the other’s call; “Stop gathering 
firewood !” 
Then, “Wait a bit!” said those things. 
“Be quick!” she was heard to call, and presently, “My spouse!” she 
cried; “Come back home! I am getting sad, my spouse, because you are 
so long about coming home,” she said. 
Oh, but as for her, she fled. 
Then at last elder sister grew tired of calling, “Come home, my 
spouse!” 
“Wait a bit!” 
“Yah!” 
Presently, “You will anger me, my spouse! Come home!” 
“Wait a bit! I first want to get some faggots.” 
At last the woman arose and looked for her sister. 
“You actually pay no heed at all! Now I am going to club you, my 
spouse! You are taking too long about coming home!” 
Then, using her one leg, she went to where her sister had been gather- 
ing wood, and when she got near, the other ceased chopping wood, and 
then, in another grove, again the other was noisily chopping and malung a 
din at the gathering of firewood. 
“She keeps right on getting wood, when I call and call to her! Now 
you have made me angry! When I reach you, I shall club you, my spouse!” 
she said to her sister. 
But when she got there, presently she saw the sleeves that were 
gathering wood. Then those sleeves fell to the ground. 
“Oho, truly my spouse has angered me by running away! Wherever 
I overtake you, I will kill you, my spouse!” she said to her, and began 
seeking her. 
Presently she found her tracks and began to trail her. 
“In any case there will be no distance great enough for you to flee!” 
she called to her sister. 
Oh, she was swift, even though she had only one leg. Presently, as 
that woman fled, and her elder sister came nearer and nearer, “Alas! 
Where is that grandfather of mine who once was here!” she cried. 
In the direction in which she was running, a bear appeared in the 
path. 
“Alas, grandfather, try to save my life! My elder sister means to 
kill me.” 
