The mother worked all day and dug a great many roots; she had a big basketful to put away. She wondered where she could put them so the old woman couldn’t find them. Then she thought of Keŏnise, a hill where Lok didn’t go. It was a long way off, but she carried the roots there and hid them.
When the children didn’t come back, the grandmother scratched around in the ashes, found live coals and melted the gum out of her eyes; then she tracked her daughter.
As soon as the daughter knew that her mother was coming, she went to the house, took the roots out of the hole, and threw them around everywhere.
When the old woman came back, the daughter said: “We won’t be persons any longer. In later times people will kill and eat us.”
The old woman said: “It is better so.”
They wandered off to the mountains, and from that time only a male bear and female bear live together, and they never have more than two children. [[207]]
GÄK AND THE KAIUTOIS BROTHERS
CHARACTERS
| Gäk | Crow | Skóŭks | Woodtick | |
| Kaiutois | Wolf | Tcûskai | Weasel | |
| Kaltsik | Spider | Tciwididik | Road Runner | |
| Kéwe | Eel | Tskel | Mink | |
| Pakol | Deer |