Which Twin Restored His Father To Life

This tale has been adapted from the original for readability:

A man had four sons, and they were all twins. Their father was a hunter. When the children were still small, he went out hunting and never came back. His wife fretted and worried, because she did not know what had happened to him. When the four boys were grown, they asked their mother about their father, and she said, “He went hunting, and I never learned what became of him.”

The youngest said, “I will find out what happened to my father. I have to go and look for him.” One brother said, “If you find him, I can put him back together, if you bring me all the bones.” Another said, “I can give him a body.” The last said, “I can give him life.” They did not tell their mother what they were planning. They only asked which path their father took when he went hunting. She told them, “The back road.”

So the four brothers set off. They cut their way through the bush and wandered a long way, deeper and deeper, until they came to a river. There, the youngest spotted their father’s gun, and nearby he found his father’s skull. When the other three arrived, the youngest said, “I’ve done my part.”

The brother who had promised to gather the bones dived to the bottom of the river and found them. He brought them up onto the bank and fitted them together as neatly as a person, then said, “Now I’ve done my part.”

Next, the brother who had promised to make a body mixed mud and covered the bones with it, shaping flesh and features, and setting hair in place, until the figure looked like a man again. When he was finished, he said to the last brother, “I’ve done my part.”

Now it was the eldest brother’s turn, the one who had said he could give life. He had a small horn that could protect life and even bring it back. It had been made long ago, when the twins were babies, to keep them safe from harm. He put the horn to his father’s nose and blew.

At once the man sneezed, grabbed his gun, and started for home.

Back at the house, his wife had been crying. The boys had been gone since morning and it was nearly evening, and she feared something dreadful had happened to them. Then she looked up and saw her husband walking along the road. Her tears turned into laughter, and the whole house filled with joy.

And that is how the four brothers brought their father back.