Ugh! And she looked in! And she says she heard something that was no louder than the peep of a bird.
Into that death-hole she went--and brought out a baby.

The parents, starving and half crazed after their sickness, had left it--thinking it was dead.
"Josephine brought it to a cabin close to home, in two weeks she had that kid out rolling in the snow.

Then the mother and father heard something of what had happened, and came to us as fast as their legs could bring them.

You should have seen that Indian mother's gratitude! She didn't think it so terrible to leave the baby unburied.

She thought it was dead.