How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers 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 . 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 , ` Father , here is a bear which we killed ; now we can have some dinner . ' But the father , who was in a bad temper , only said : ` When I was a young man we used to get two bears in one day . ' The sons were rather disappointed at hearing this , and though there was plenty of meat to last for two or three days , they started off early in the morning down the same trail that they had followed before . As they drew near the fork a bear suddenly ran out from behind a tree , and took the path on the right . The two elder boys and their dogs pursued him , and soon the second son , who was also a good shot , killed him instantly with an arrow . At the fork of the trail , on their way home , they met the youngest , who had taken the left-hand road , and had shot a bear for himself . But when they threw the two bears triumphantly on the floor of the hut their father hardly looked at them , and only said : ` When I was a young man I used to get three bears in one day . ' The next day they were luckier than before , and brought back three bears , on which their father told them that HE had always killed four . However , that did not prevent him from skinning the bears and cooking them in a way of his own , which he thought very good , and they all ate an excellent supper . 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 . The chief was furious at the number of bears the hunters had killed , and determined that he would find some way of destroying them . So he called another of his servants , and said to him : ` Go to the thicket near the fork , where the boys killed your brothers , and directly they or the dogs see you return here as fast as ever you can . The mountain will open to let you in , and the hunters will follow you .
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