188 WAWENOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE |etb. ann. 43 



"What, then, shall we do with you?" The second chief spoke and 

 said, "We shall have to cut him up in pieces." Then said the Turtle, 

 "Not me; that will not kill me." Then he said (the captain), 

 "Then we shall burn him up." Then again said the Turtle, " Not me; 

 that will not kill me." Then they aU said, "Then we shall drown 

 him." Then that Turtle said again, "That will kill me." Imme- 

 diately they grabbed liim to kUl him. Well, in a little lake they were 

 going to throw hun. From the place where they dragged him the 

 earth was torn up and furrowed, where they hauled him. But at 

 last, here in the lake, they threw him into the water, that Turtle; 

 then he sanlv, his back down and belly up, lilce a dead animal. But 

 he riled up the water with his paws, and then when it was all muddy 

 he poked his head out of his shell from the water and then he cried 

 out, "Oh ho! as for you all, your earth kills you, but as for me my 

 land does not kill me." Then the birds heard him, that Turtle, by 

 the noise of his screeching, and they rushed upon him, these warriors, 

 and they chose one that was an expert diver. They selected the 

 loon. Then this one dove down for him. WTien he had done this 

 the second and the third time he found the Turtle. And thereupon 

 they threw hun ashore out upon the ground, and they knocked him 

 dead, the Turtle, and that is the end of my story. 



Then Gluskabe went away from there to the ocean. And he 

 followed a river up as far as the great divide (the frontier between 

 New England and Canada). There he started up a moose and this 

 moose started to make away among the rivers in the direction of 

 Penobscot Valley. Pukdjinskwessu knew that he was coming, for she 

 could sense it, being a magic woman. Then she wanted to plague 

 Gluskabe, for she wanted to scare away from him the moose so that he 

 could not Ivill liim. But that Gluskabe knew it, that Pukdjinskwessu, 

 how she wanted to plague him. So he thought, "On account of this, 

 you will not see me passing by." Accordingly, that Pukdjinskwessu 

 wandered all about to see if she could find out whether any- 

 one had gone by. But she could see nothing except how the 

 tracks of his snowshoes were left on the bare ledge. For a long time 

 she followed the tracks, but at last she lost the tracks of Gluskabe, 

 because he commanded, in his mind, that she could not find him. 

 Then Gluskabe went down to a river, and he saw the very moose he 

 was following; and he shot at it, and there it fell, the moose. And 

 while he was falling he went up and skinned it, and after he had 

 skinned it he took out its intestines. Then he threw them to his 

 dog. He threw them where the moose was killed. That is now 

 called "moose buttocks" by the people. And as the intestines of 

 that moose were stretched out there they showed white underneath 



