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“Dear me, dear me, dear me, my grandchild, I too am afraid of your 
sister! Of manitou nature is your sister. At any rate, flee straight ahead 
in this direction.” 
Accordingly, the woman fled. Oh, quickly that woman came into 
sight. 
“Fie, my spouse has come down to depending on this creature!” she 
cried, when she came to him; “Bear, where is my spouse?” 
“I do not know where she is!” he told her. 
“Are you not hiding my spouse? Quick, tell me!” 
“I do not know anything about her.” 
“Quick. No doubt you are hiding her from me. I am ready to kill 
you.” 
The bear was getting into a rage, but he could do nothing. With her 
cut-off leg she kicked the bear; she killed him. She kept up the search 
in that place. Again she found her sister’s track; again she set out on her 
trail, and presently again she was close upon the other’s heels. 
“Alas, where is my grandfather who once was here!” she said to one, 
and he turned out to be a Great Lynx. 
And when that person arrived there, “Ha, my spouse has come down 
to placing vain hope even in this creature!” she cried to him, weary, as she 
arrived; “Great Lynx, where is my spouse?” 
“Why, where can she be?” 
“Surely you are hiding her from me! Quick, tell me where you are 
hiding my wife. I am quite ready to kill you!” 
“I know nothing about her.” 
“Quick, I tell you! Tell me about my spouse!” 
Before he could speak to her, she had already kicked him; she killed 
him. For it was just as if she had shot him, so powerful was that elder 
sister’s leg. And when she had killed him, then again she looked for where 
her sister had gone. Again she found her trail, and again she tracked her. 
And presently again she was following close upon her. 
Presently she cried, “Alas, where is my grandfather?” 
There, as she went running round a bend, she beheld a Great Serpent. 
“Now, my grandchild, at any rate, flee along here! But truly I do 
fear your elder sister; she is of manitou nature,” he told her. 
“Alas, my grandfather, try to kill her! That elder sister of mine 
means to slay me!” she told him. 
She fled. Presently she came running into sight. 
“Ha, even in this creature my spouse places hope!” 
Where the other was, she stopped in her course. 
“Great Serpent, where is my spouse?” 
“Ha, I know nothing about her.” 
“Tell me! You are hiding her from me, and I am going to kick you! 
PU kill you!” 
As soon as the other budged, she kicked him; in the end she killed 
him. Thereupon again she sought her sister. Presently she saw where 
she had passed in flight. Then again she followed her trail. Now there 
was nothing in which that young woman could place hope. Presently, as 
she ran on and on, she saw a frozen lake and a man at the centre of it. She 
ran toward him. When she reached him, why, he was one-legged, and 
was carrying a huge stone, and pounding the ice to make holes in it. 
