And Cloud said, that time; “I wonder if it is so that you are my children!”
And the boys said: “That is what they say.”
And Cloud said: “I want you to do something to prove it.”
Then the oldest boy thundered loud and lightened, and the other lightened a little, and Cloud said, “It is true, you are my children!”
And before night Cloud fed them, and then went into his kee and shut it up and left them outside all night. And it rained and snowed all night, but they staid outside.
And in the morning Cloud came out, and said: “It is really so, that you are my children.”
And the next night he took them to a pond, where there was ice, and left them there all night. And the next day, when he came there and found they had staid in the water all night he said: “It is really so—you are my children.”
So Cloud acknowledged them for his children and took them into his kee. And after awhile the boys wanted to go back to their mother, and Cloud said: “You may go, but you must not speak to anybody on the way. And I will be with you on the journey.”
So the boys started, and cloud was over them, in the sky, shadowing them.
And after a while they saw a man coming, and the younger boy said: “We must ask him how our mother is.”