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Show around. After while she came back. Those babies, those two little ones were crawling around. After while when ther were crawling, after some time had passed, ther were here at the door. They would go out for a little while and then came back in. All this time, they were growing and growing and got big. They grew to where they were able to walk. While that happened his wife was gone, Bear was gone. She went and gathered potatoes, and carrots, and appi roots, just about anything, appi roots and kanna. They ate that. That man was sitting here at the door of the house of Bear. He sat there. As that was happening, he was a human being coming up there. Two humans were riding (by horse) there. That human looked at them. The two humans were riding. Riding, the two of them looked at him, rode near him, stopped there because it seemed they had seen him. They saw him. "He must be our companion that was lost," they said. "That Bear must have taken him," the two of them said. "Ho ho, that Bear must have taken him. We should go see him," they said. They (went) toward him. "Which way are you two going?" he asked. "We are going back to our house, our house on the other side of the mountains. How will it be with you?" they said. "Are you going to be with us?" they asked. His bear children were playing on it, they were playing at the door. They were doing this to the ground as that was going on, they were digging with their claws. At that time, the two bear children were standing. The human put their father on the back (of a horse). |