Three brothers were hunting on a wager to see who would bring home the first game.
"They were to shoot no other animal," so the legend says, "but such as each was in the habit of killing.

They set out different ways: Odjibwa, the youngest, had not gone far before he saw a bear, an animal he was not to kill, by the agreement.

He followed him close, and drove an arrow through him, which brought him to the ground.
Although contrary to the bet, he immediately commenced skinning him, when suddenly something red tinged all the air around him.

He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was perhaps deceived; but without effect, for the red hue continued.

At length he heard a strange noise at a distance.