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you are going to make your escape from me. It is the hardest thing a 
person could do.” By this time the brothers were a good way 
off, but»they could still hear the Bear talking. They went fast, each 
taking his turn carrying their sister along. The Bear kept gaining 
on them, and came so near that they could see her coming. The oldest 
brother took a turtle shell, threw it on the ground, and there was a 
great, big bunch of turtles crawling around. Then they continued their 
escape. When the Bear came to the turtles she stopped quite a while, 
trying to get them to one place, so that she could get them. But the 
turtles kept crawling around. They were the Bear’s main food, and this 
was a good chance for her to get all she wanted. The Bear forgot for 
a while all about chasing the seven brothers, who, with their sister, had 
gone a long way ahead of her. The Bear again chased the people, say- 
ing: “TI will get you. You need not think you are going to make me 
forget to chase you.” ‘The seven brothers and their sister could hear the 
Bear talking, but she was a good way off yet. They still kept traveling 
as fast as they could. The Bear, having power to travel a good deal 
faster than the seven brothers, gained on them so that they could see 
her coming and could hear her voice, and they were frightened. The 
oldest brother took a piece of red colored stone and threw it on the 
ground and the place was full of red colored stones. This brother knew. 
this to be the very thing that the Bear wanted for painting. When 
the Bear came to the place she stopped, thinking that was the very 
thing she had been wanting for a good while. The Bear commenced to 
pile up the red colored stones and almost forgot about chasing the 
seven brothers. The Bear did forget once in a while, but soon thought 
of it again. She now said to herself: “Well, when I come back I will 
have what I want.” She then pursued them again. The seven brothers 
had gone a long way ahead of her. She commenced talking again, and 
this time they heard her saying that they were the people she was after, 
for they had done her wrong by pricking her with the points of the 
arrows, and she was bound to get them and get even with them. They 
traveled along, but the Bear kept gaining on them, and she got so near 
that they could see her coming. 
The oldest brother now took his knife, cut out of his arrows a 
fine dust, threw it on the ground and there were great, big bushes that 
arrows are made of. When the Bear came to the place she stopped 
again and began to look for the best and straightest bushes, saying to 
herself, ‘“Well, here are the things I have been wanting for a long while, 
and here is the best chance for me to get what I want.” She commenced 
to cut them with her teeth. Whenever the oldest brother left something 
