Once upon a time...
In a small hut, right in the middle of the forest, lived a man, his wife, three sons and a daughter. For some
reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the country, and food grew very scarce; so, one morning,
after a night of snow, when the tracks of beasts might be easily seen, the three boys started off to hunt.
They kept together for some time, till they reached a place where the path they had been following split into
two, and one of the brothers called his dog and went to the left, while the others took the trail to the right.
These had not gone far when their dogs scented a bear, and drove him out from the thicket. The bear ran across a
clearing, and the elder brother managed to place an arrow right in his head.
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They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the third at the spot where they had parted from
him. When they reached home they threw the bear down on the floor of the hut saying,
Now these bears were the servants of the great bear chief who lived in a high mountain a long way off. And every
time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of the bear chief, with the marks of his wounds plainly
to bee seen by the rest.
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At this moment the second brother came up--for the mountain had been left open on purpose to tempt him also--and
cried out breathlessly: 'Don't you see that the bear is lying close to you? Why don't you shoot him?' And,
without waiting for a reply, pressed forward to drive his arrow into the heart of the bear. But the elder one
caught his raised arm, and whispered: 'Be quiet! can't you tell where you are?' Then the boy looked up and saw
the angry bears about him. On the one side were the servants of the chief, and on the other the servants of the
chief's sister, who was sorry for the two youths, and begged that their lives might be spared. The chief answered
that he would not kill them, but only cast a spell over them, by which their heads and bodies should remain as
they were, but their arms and legs should change into those of a bear, so that they would go on all fours for the
rest of their lives. And, stooping over a spring of water, he dipped a handful of moss in it and rubbed it over
the arms and legs of the boys. In an instant the transformation took place, and two creatures, neither beast nor
human stood before the chief.
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Meanwhile the mother at home was wondering what had become of her two sons, and as the hours went on, and their
father never returned, she made up her mind to go and look for him. The youngest boy begged her to let him
undertake the search, but she would not hear of it, and told him he must stay at home and take care of his
sister. So, slipping on her snow-shoes, she started on her way.
Not knowing quite what to make of it all, the boy continued on the trail, and went down the right-hand fork till
he came to the clump of bushes where the bears used to hide.
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As he came along, the bear chief's sister was looking out of the window, and took pity on this little brother, as
she had on the two elder ones, and waited to see what the boy would do, when he found that the bear servant and
the dog had already entered the mountain.
As the arrow touched the ground a rumbling was heard, and with a roar a fire broke out which seemed to split the
whole mountain into pieces. The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but his sister and
all that belonged to her were spared because she had tried to save the two elder boys from punishment.
As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered what was left of the mountain, and the first
thing he saw was his two brothers--half bear, half boy.
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'Little boy, gather some moss from the spring over there, and let your brothers smell it.'
And this the boys did, and took such good care of their sister that, as she was very small, she soon forgot that
she had ever had a father and mother.
How The Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers