30 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
TRANSLATION. 
Jn the former time the Rabbit departed. “Grandmother, I will go to hunt feathers 
for myself,” said he. ‘I¢iate’ i¢iate’e+!” said she, “in what place (do you think) you 
will find feathers very easily?” And he went. Going across the ground by a very 
hear way, on very level prairie, he went crying: ‘‘O--- mother’s brother! O- - 
mother’s brother!” he continued saying as he went. Those whom he sought, the 
Eagles, were flying round and round, pressing very closely against the (top of) the 
sky. Both went along, and they turned themselves around as they went. ‘These 
(moving ones) will take me,” he said. The Eagles were crying and saying ‘T-t-t-t-t.” 
It came to pass the other one was coming (this way, to earth) from above to attack 
him (or, dash ou him). And he seized him. And he carried him homeward. And he 
reached home with him. He took him home to the sky up above. And there was a 
lodge. ‘My father has brought home a very good animal as prey” (said the Haglet). 
And the Eaglet said, O elder brother (Rabbit) we two love you very much.” “Though 
for some time I have been doing nothing but move, who will love me?” said (the 
Rabbit). And he sat erect on his hind legs. The Eaglets loved that; it alone was 
very good. And he (the Eaglet) said as follows: ‘“‘Whence have you come?” 
“When I was just walking across the ground by a near way, your father seized me,” 
said he (the Rabbit). And he said, ‘At what time of the day does your father usually 
get home?” “My father,” said he, “is accustomed to come home when it is very late 
in the afternoon, and when water is falling one drop at a time from small round clouds 
of different sizes.” It came to pass that he (the Eaglet) said as follows: “O elder 
brother, of what sort is it when you do that?” “Yes,” said he (the Rabbit) “thus, 
as you see me, they strike my head with one stone, when it is resting on another.” “O 
elder brother, treat us so,” he said (the Eaglet). “ You all shall sit in that place,” said 
he (the Rabbit). ‘So let us sit,” said he (the Eaglet). And so he treated them. The 
one he crushed with a violent blow, and he killed his younger brother with a blow in 
like manner. And he pulled out the feathers. And he made them (the Eaglets) fall 
violently to the ground. And he tied up the feathers. And that which they told him 
was apt to be the case (did occur): the father came back suddenly. ‘Do you and 
your younger brother take that,” he said. When he had reached home with a snake, 
and pushed his way into (the lodge) he (the Rabbit) crushed him with a violent blow. 
After a while, precisely at the beginning of darkness, the mother came home suddenly. 
“Do you and your younger brother take that,” she said. Again in like manner she 
had brought home a snake. And again he killed the mother with a blow. And again 
he sat pulling out the feathers, he sat tying them up. And he also sat crying. He 
departed, carrying the feathers on his back. And he was going along erying. At 
length there was a lodge. He arrived there. And he was standing crying. The 
woman peeped at him. Behold, she was his grandmother. After she stood a while 
she said “M+! on what very important business are you traveling?” And he said, 
“T sought feathers for myself, and have many. And moreover, I hesitate about start- 
ing homeward, fearing failure; therefore I have been doing nothing but ery.” “M+!” 
said the woman, “I am with a person, but he is bad. You must go quickly to your 
home. Hasten,” she said. The Rabbit sat in a bag of woven yarn the size of a hat. 
He tied the feathers to it. ‘Though you will go homeward this time, when you 
reach home, put a red-oak acorn in (the bag) for me,” said she. “ When you tread the 
