For this reason he lives in good fellowship with the mountain goatherds, does them no harm, brings presents for them and their wives, pays handsomely for every bit of bread, and thus makes it pretty sure that they will never betray him.
The place where Juon Tare's wife dwells is called the ice valley.

They call it so because it is here that the first ice of the winter appears; as early as mid-September the stream is fringed with it.

There, by the side of the stream, stands a little wooden hut, one of whose walls reposes on the ascending rock behind it.

Here dwells the fair Mariora all alone.

And yet I am wrong to say alone, for three of them dwell together there--herself, a little one-year-old child, and a tame bear.
Her husband she sometimes does not see for a week at a time, especially in the autumn and winter when the freshly fallen snow has obliterated the pastures.