958 . BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [boll. 40 



[Translation] 



Spider happened to be traveling along alone in a certain place, it is 

 said. And he was going along through a forest, eating. Then he 

 stood on the edge of a river; and, although he wanted to get across, 

 there was no wa}^; and he said, they say, "I stand thinking continu- 

 ally, ' Oh that I might sit on the other side! ' " Then something with 

 long horns came swimming up against the current. And he said 

 again, "I stand thinking continuall}^, *■ Oh that I might sit on the 

 other side ! ' " 



Just then the creature with long horns stopped there, and said to 

 him, " Ho! I will take you across this water, but I will have you be 

 on the watch for a certain thing." Then the Spider said, "Come! my 

 3'ounger brother, 1 will do whatever 3^ou command me." So he said 

 to him, "Well! I always swim in the water with my head not 

 extended above it. So you shall be on the watch for me." Then he 

 said, "Yes." 



So he said, " When one small cloud becomes visible, tell me. Then 

 I will flee and go back into deep water." Then he said, " My younger 

 brother, what will become of me?" And he said, "In that case, 

 when you tell it to me, and 1 double up and start off, jou will fall 

 close to the shore. When you say, ' Your grandfather is coming,' it 

 will mean that the Thunders roar." 



So he was going along in the water sitting upon the horn. And 

 when he was going along near the shore, black clouds were coming. 

 So he said, " My 3'ounger brother, jour grandfather is coming." So 

 all at once the water moved about roaringly. And whither the Spider 

 went, he did not at all remember. And a long time afterward, lo! he 

 came to himself lying partly in the water. Then he looked at the 

 water. Then upward the water was grayish, and he did not see the 

 thing with long horns, and he also heard Thunders roaring. 



Now the Spider traveled on from this place just as usual, it is said. 

 I remember only this far. 



