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you are slow, while I am in haste !" said the rabbit. "Not so ! No !" 

 said the skunk. "You step aside ! I will go where I mean to, old man. 

 Come, get out of my way ! Be quick ! You are keeping me, 1 want to 

 go on." "By no means ! Step aside yourself, old man," said the rabbit. 

 "Well, let me do something for you. Your eyes are bad, you cannot 

 see. You cannot see my coming. I tell you my eyes are good. Just 

 look at them, old man. They are good and small. I can see even under 

 the ground. Well, shall I do anything for you? Your eyes are bad. 

 Come." The skunk turned and stuck out his tail. "Come up close, 

 look right at it, don't be afraid ! Stand near and look closely. Are 

 you close up now?" "Yes," said the rabbit, and the skunk discharged 

 against him. Oh ! The rabbit jumped aside, it smarted so, and rolled 

 about with his eyes shut. "I told you so, old man," said the skunk. 

 "What is the matter? I shall go where I intended. Thus I always 

 leave them overpowered. I have given you medicine." ^ — K. 



104. — Turtle's War-party." 



The people were going to war. An old man had been told to cry 

 out that all were to prepare to go. The turtle heard the announcement 

 and thought that he, too, would go. When he started, the people had 

 already left. Then the wart (wanou) started out and overtook the 

 turtle. Vulva cum postrema advenisset, una cum eis progressa est. 

 Ubicumque homines castra posuerant testudo perveniebat. , Pulvere 

 sordida et scabra et fatiscens verruca quoque perveniebat, in adversum 

 se volutans ; quacum una veniebat vulva luto maculosa et ore inflam- 

 mato. Simulac ad castra pervenerat voce spumosa (imitated by nar- 

 rator) dicebat: "Comitor ut mihi bene sit." Penem capite nudatum tra- 

 hebat testudo. Cum quadriduum homines progressi essent, nivis casus 

 ita gravis erat ut ultra progredi non possent. Itaque reverterunt, quod 

 idem fecerunt testudo et verruca et vulva. The people had already 

 arrived in camp, and these three were approaching it. The turtle went 

 off the trail and remained there. The wart stopped in the middle of the 

 trail, and remained there, outside the camp-circle. It said : "This is 

 where I shall remain. I shall always be found in the same place, in the 

 middle of the trail. Vulva, cum ad castra pervenisset, labiis crepans 

 (smacking) dixit: "Ad castra obtinenda ceteris subsidio esse volui. 

 Ad mulieres ibo, cum eis manebo inferiore ventris parte posita. Quo 

 loco laeta ero ; nam suavis est et ab omnibus desiderandus. Viri si me 



' For an analogous encounter between coyote and snake, see J. O. Dorsey, The Dheg^iha 

 Language. Contr. N. A. Ethn., VI, 566. 

 * Informants J. 



