22 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
TRANSLATION. 
The Rabbit arrived there (where he had killed the Black Bear chief) with his 
grandmother. And, “Grandmother, carry the thigh on your back,” he said. “O 
grandchild! he made himself a god, therefore he is very dangerous, even when he is 
lying down. He might crush me with his leg. I am unwilling,” said she. ‘Come, 
grandmother!” said he, “then carry the ribs on your back.” “My grandchild, you 
are foolish. The ribs will break in my side; they are heavy,” she said. ‘What! 
where is the part which you will carry on your back?” he said. And, “Carry,” said 
he, “the head on your back.” ‘“O grandchild! the teeth are sharp, and they might crush 
me,” she said. ‘I am very much afraid of them,” said she. And he said, “Come, 
grandmother, carry the breast on your back.” “O grandchild! that is it,” said she. 
And he made the membrum virile to be with it. The old woman rejoiced on account of 
that. And the Rabbit said, “Come, grandmother, begone. Carry it on your back and 
begone.” “By and by [in two hours] I will come home to you quickly,” said he. His 
grandmother went homeward carrying it on her back. And then she would have gone 
down hill at a valley, but she slipped suddenly as she went homeward, and the mem- 
brum virile penetrated as far as the os tince. ‘U-t+!” she contiiued saying. And her 
grandchild came to her on his way home. At length he found her. He sawher. He 
passed around (avoided) her, and went homeward. “The old woman has done very 
wrong,” thought he as he went homeward. And the Rabbit reached his home at the 
lodge. And after a great while his grandmother arrived at home. And he said, 
“Why have you been walking?” (Or, ‘““ What was the matter with you?”) *¢O grand- 
child! some young Pawnees, your friends, having met me, went home with me (that is, 
they took her to their home). As they made me eat, I did not come home.” And when 
they reached home his grandmother said that she was sick. He threw pieces of 
blood on her with sudden force. He made a catamenial cloth for his grandmother. 
“Grandmother, you have done very wrong. Go out of doors. Grandmother, cook 
out of doors. Eat your own piece out of doors, that breast which you cariied on your 
back,” said he. “O grandchild! I have killed my own (relation or property)!” said 
she. ‘It shall surely be so, INg¢a",” said the Rabbit’s grandmother. 
HOW THE RABBIT KILLED A GIANT. 
OBTAINED FROM FRANK LAFLECHE. 
dqti-efkidibi aka édedi akAma. Waniya dada” téwa¢af éctéwa™ 
Deer. hiey SROOESOE. the there was, they Animal what they killed notwithstand- 
im say. ing 
fna"pe-hna”i ‘i-biamd. Ki ma tfhe ama xi cka™¢é a¢d-biamaé. Ki 
fearinghim habitu- they gavetohim, And snow’ waslying, they when to dislodge went they say. And 
on account ally they siy. say (game) 
of it 
3 Mactcin’ge-™ amd cti @/di a¢d-biamé. Gata’’-qti ?éwad¢e etéga™i aha” 
Rabbit the(mv.) too there went they say. At last to kill them apt ! 
