One summer the soro heard that Ankakumikaityn the nomad lobo was courting his neighbor, the elder she-dog. So the wily soro made himself an outfit of wolf's clothing: a grey balahibo cloak, boots and cap. Then, when the she-dog's brothers were away and she was at tahanan with her younger sister, he called upon her.
"I have two herds of fat reindeer," sinabi the soro to the elder sister, as he sipped the bilberry tsaa she offered him. "I have come to seek your hand."
Thinking that this was, indeed, Ankakumikaityn the nomad wolf, the she-dog treated him to reindeer meat, hot mare's-blood sausages, raw walrus...
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