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Culla, the brother, goes to town for food, but it is Sunday and the store is closed. He struggles back and finds his sister still in pain and weak, bloody and foul in her bed. Culla makes an egg for his sister and gives her some water. The cornbread they eat that night is beginning to turn green from mold but they ignore it. While his sister sleeps, Culla takes an ax and digs a shallow grave in the glad near-by. The next day Culla leaves for the store again. He tells his sister not to talk to any strangers. She replies that there are only strangers in her world. The sister begins to gain strength and walks about the cabin a bit, although she continues to bleed.

The sister becomes curious about her baby and asks her brother where it...