"Why, husband! you expose our home to the eyes of all!"
All about their lodge were bare spots where he had pulled the grass, so they had to find a new place in which to live.
At last the pair were snug and warm for the winter, and as it was now time to go to sleep, they did so, and slept until they were aroused by the barking of a Dog and the footsteps of a hunter on the crisp snow.
The Bear wife struck the roof of her house, and a Partridge flew up out of the snow with a great whirring of wings. The Dog followed the Partridge and the hunter followed the Dog.
When the hunter came for the second time, she started a Rabbit, which drew the Dog away, and he drew away the hunter.
But when he persisted, and came back for the third time, she left her home and ran for her life, leaving her husband to follow as best he could.
He ran on and on, following his wife's tracks in the deep snow, until he came to a little hut where lived an old Bear.