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Rh "That we were given in payment for one set of arrows," they said.

"We must certainly go out and sell arrows, too," said the others.

But the two told them: "No, you must not do that. For when we went away, she said: 'Do not let any others come selling arrows.'"

But although this had been said to them, all fell to at once making arrows. And the next day they set out with the arrows on their backs. The two little boys did not desire to go, but went in despite of that, because the others ordered them.

Now when they came to the ravine, it looked as if that house were no longer there. And when they came down, not a stone of it was to be seen. They could not see so much as the two sheds or anything of them. And no one could now tell where that woman had gone.

And that was the last time they went out hunting ptarmigan.