^"'o^^s^"^] OKULA M MYTH TRANSLATION. 31 



ime'xala. Niikct qa'iisiX miiXugo'mita tkana'xemct. Ka'nauwe 1 



your name !Xot ever you will make tbem chiefs. Every 



will be ' unhappy 



i'kta, ma'uix i'kta ia/qjatxala ixa/xo, mxa'xo-ilma wa'tsEtsEtsE- 2 



tiling, if thing bad will get, you will always say wa'tsetsetse- 



tsEtsEtsE! LEmta/xauyam ! Ka'iiauwe i'kta a'Lql mtgia'xo 3 



tsetsetsol Ob, your [dual] pity ! Every thing later ou you two will 



eat it 



itj'o'kti. Ka'nauwe tkoxoe'ma mtkta'xo." TakE aciu'cgam 4 



good. All berries you two will Then they two took 



eat them." him 



Lcta'mama. A'lta acga'yuk"!; go Ltcuq. A'lta po'po acgil/yax; 5 



their [dual] father. Xow they two carried to water. Now blow they two did 



him him; 



ne'k-ikct. A'lta aLi'xko. 6 



be saw. Now they went home. 



Translation. 



Once upon a time there were live brothers. The four older ones 

 went hunting' elk every day and left the youngest one at home. Their 

 house was full of meat and of tallow. Once upon a time the youngest 

 brother felt lonesome, and said : " O, I wish lie would come, the Glut- 

 ton, and eat all the meat." Four days he continued to say so, then he 

 heard a noise like the shaking of rattles at the door. Now a person 

 appeared who was so large that his blanket consisted of two elk skins. 

 It had a fringe of elk-hoofs. He entered, sat down, and said: "O, 

 grandson, I am hungry." The boy arose and gave him some meat and 

 tallow. When he looked the stranger had eaten it all. He gave him 

 more, and when he looked again it had all disappeared. The whole 

 day long he gave him meat and tallow. In the evening his brothers 

 came home and brought a fresh supply of meat. When they saw what 

 had happened tbey said to him: "What did you do? How did the evil 

 spirit come here?" The boy replied, "I felt lonesome, and said: 'O, 

 I wish he would come, the Glutton, and eat all the meat.'" " Oh, you 

 fool, certainly the monster will eat us." They fed him all night until 

 sunrise. They continued to feed him the whole day. Then the meat 

 was at an end. The youngest brother said to the monster: "What 

 will our grandfather eat next? There are only skins left." The mon- 

 ster replied: "What shall I eat, grandchildren, now there are only 

 skins and you." "What does he say?" "'Now there are only skins 

 and you,' he says." "Speak to him again." "What will our grand- 

 father eat next? There are only skins left." The monster replied: 

 "What shall 1 eat, grandchildren, now there are only skins and you." 

 "What does he say?" " 'Now there are only skins and you,' he says." 

 "Speak to him again." " What will our grandfather eat next? There 

 are only skins left." The monster replied: " What shall I eat, grand- 

 children, now there are only skins and you." "What does he say?" 

 " 'Now there are only skins and you,' he says." Now they began to 

 understand him. They boiled sli ins and gave them to him. For a long 

 time he continued to eat and it grew dark again. Then they dug a 



