Before leaving home Old Grizzly always said to her cubs, "Do not skip down from the house, or your hearts will get loose in you. Do not jump over logs, or tree sticks will run into you. Do not dive into the water, or it will rise and smother you."
The cubs always answered, "We will obey our mother's orders."
Old Deer never warned her children of anything. She just said, "Good-by, children."
One morning, while they were gathering roots, Old Deer filled her basket first. Old Grizzly had been eating as she dug. Old Deer said, "I 'm ready to go home now"; and started on. Old Grizzly grumbled, but she went home with Old Deer, and they each gave their roots to their children.
The next morning Old Grizzly again ate the roots, instead of putting them into her basket. Old Deer worked steadily and soon had her basket full. When she started to go home, Old Grizzly in jealous anger sprang upon her neck and killed her. She hung Old Deer's body in a tree. Then she put into her own basket the roots Old Deer had gathered and returned home.
When she reached the lodge, she gave some roots to her own cubs and some to Old Deer's children. As the younger Deer child smelled the roots, he cried, "That smells like our mother."
