Then [the brothers] having met with the sister, they spoke to her. The Princess said, “The time when the Bear comes is near. Because of that return to the village, and come to-morrow morning to go with me.” So both of them went to the village.
After that, the Bear having come, at the words which he had heard walked away growling and growling with anger. Thereafter the two brothers came, and returned with the Princess to the village. Two children had been born to the Bear; with those two also they went.
Thereupon the Bear having come to the rock cave, and perceived when he looked that the Princess and children were not [there], came [after them] of his own accord. When he came, he saw by the light the Queen and two children. Those two sprang off and went away.
The Bear asked the Queen, “What are you going for?”
“A cleverer Bear than you told me to come. Because of that I am going,” she said.
The Bear having said, “Where is there a cleverer Bear than I? Show me him,” went [with her].
Then the Queen, having gone near a well, showed the reflection of the Bear that was at the bottom of the water. At that time the Bear which was on the ground sprang into the well in order to bite the Bear that was in the well. Having sprung in he died.
Then the two brothers, and the Princess, and the two children went home and stayed there.
North-central Province.