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Show Having spent the night with him when morning came, she took him by the hand. She did like this to him on that side of the bed. She did this on them, she placed his hand on the carrots, like this. After taking hs hand, she also placed his hand on the potatoes, also on the appi roots. And also everything else here, on the currants, chokecherries, serviceberries. That man ate some of these, like this. Something must have happened when that man got lost and went in that (cave). Fall (passed), winter (came) and he spent the winter with her. He was with her during the winter. Spending the winter with him, after a time, when spring came, she got sick, and digging with her hands on that side of the bed, she made a bed again, and made a slapping sound like this. She made a bed on that side. The taking his hand, she did this to her stomach with it, she did this with it, to the man's hand. Then over there on that side there was a sound, a noise like water, a noise like water. Then there was some kind of sound like eating. From the mouth, it sounded like a mouth noise, like eating. Then after a while, maybe lying down once (i.e. one night's sleep), she took him by the hand again. She dragged him by the hand, and it happened like this there, she placed his hand here. By golly if it wasn't a little baby, a bear baby. She placed his hand on one more. There were two babies. There were two human babies. These were that man's babies. Then when it was spring like this, she opened her (door), and went out through it. She went someplace and gathered things like carrots, and gave them to that man. Those two babies were at the crawling stage and were growing big. Little bit bigger. Then, "I wonder what's going on ot there," the man thought. Going out, he looked around, and his wife had already gone off, on some direction. He walked along looking |
