And she told him how she had made snowshoes and a bow, but even so could find no game to hunt or hit with the arrows she had made, and she was certain she would starve. Then she dreamed of a bear who had given her a fish, and she woke and went to the river to fish through the ice. That was when an eagle brought her a goose, whose feathers she used to make better arrows, and she began hunting again by speaking first to the forest and the animals, telling them of her gratitude for what they would give her, but knowing she could not have survived the winter without what she had been given,
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