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��cried out, "Somebody has snatched away Summer. That stranger has done this." Then they leaped up and went in pursuit of Gluskp'be. Soon he heard them coming in the shape of big crows. He tied his rawhide ball on his head. Then one of the big crows grabbed him on the head. He grabbed the ball of rawhide and flew back, thinking he had Gluskp'be's head. Then he saw the end of the rawhide as he unrolled it flying along. He started again in pursuit, and again grabbed another ball, thinking it was the head. Then again only rawhide he held by the end. Then he gave it up. Gluskp'be kept on until he saw snow. Soon he reached the snow. The crows chasing him turned back when they saw the snow. Glusk^'be took his snowshoes from the tree, put them on, and looked for his eye. He could not find it. "Where is my eye?" he asked the Chickadee. "A big Horned- Owl carried it off," answered the Chickadee. Then Gluskp'be called the Owl, and it came flying, and he pulled out the Owl's eye and put it in his own head. Then he left, going to where it was still colder. Then he came to where the ice-house was. He entered, and the old ice-man said, "Kwe-, grandson!" Glus- kp'be mocked him in return. Then Gluskp'be took the Summer, and set it down in front of the ice-man. He began at once to sweat, saying, "Grandson, I am very hot. You better go away." Glusk^'be mimicked him, but sat still. Then the old man begged him, "Grandson, go away, you are almost killing me." Gluskp'be again mimicked him. Then the ice-man's nose melted off, then his legs, and finally he melted away. Then Gluskp'be left, and the ice-house melted away too.

13. GLUSKA'BE DEPARTS, AND PROMISES

TO AID THE PEOPLE WHEN

HE RETURNS AGAIN

omadji'n wr'gwomwuk nama' be'djo'set He went to his wigwam. When there he arrived,

wulr'dahasu moni'mkwes'u Glusk^'be rejoiced Woodchuck. Gluskp'be

��udi-'lan an-i" ni-"kwup' gi-zi-'uli'"tun said, "So! Now it is fixed

anda'tc mr'na ado'dji sa-'gi-po-'nuwi never again such severe winter.

name"talo"kewan go'sa'snawa' ni'"kwup' I have finished working for our descendants. Now

ki'u'na kamadje'ode'bana me"tagwi -v - you and I will move away to the extreme*

djr'lak kada'ki'na 1 nadjiwr'grak'"

end of our land l to live there

aska 4 'mi metca't'etc kda'lo'kewana'wak forever. Nevertheless we shall work for them

go'sa'snawak medjr'mitc noda-'waTjk our descendants, and always I shall hear them

wi-'kwu'damawi-'hi'di'de wrdjo'ke'dawa'jjgan whenever they call for me for help.

nadji-ni-"kwup' nadje'dala'lo"kan

From now on I shall work

eda'li-'ta'wa sa-'wonal tci'ba-'dok'

to make stone arrow-heads perhaps

e'lami-ga-'dak' ktcra-'odin nHdj

in future years a great war these will

ewe"ke-'di - djil mi-ga'ke'hi'dr'dit go'sa'- be used when they fight our*

snawak nodi'da'man moni'mkwes-u

descendants." Then spoke Woodchuck:

an-i-" nega'tc nra ndlr"tun ni-'ma 4 wan 2 "So! then also I shall make lunches 2

��basada-'mun of crushed corn

uni- 'mawa'nuwul'

their lunches."

��a'o'dimge in the war

��ni-"kwup' pemgi-'zaga Now to-day

��go'sa'snawak our descendants

��tanedu'dji whenever

��atlo"kalut tcana'lo'ke Gluskp'be

a story is told of him, he stops work Gluskp 'be

nodaba'skwazin na'ga udabade'lmin raises his head and laughs heartily,

1 Surmised to be at the eastern end of the world.

2 Hunters and warriors carried small quantities of prepared corn and smoked meat in their belts on their journeys, called "lunches."

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