THE YOUNG RABBIT AND ICTINIKE. 55 
elsewhere, not here, bring it to me; or, “i*¢i"waki¢é te ha,” let him cause them to 
bring it to me. 
54, 1. ixc‘Age, his wife’s father. 
54, 3. ci ahnaha tega" ahnaha g¢iza-ga ba, ce té. It refers to Ictinike’s old cloth- 
ing, which he had left when he ran off with the good clothing of the Rabbit’s son. 
54, 5. tiginaji®-biama implies a plural animate object, i. e., the birds on his cloth- 
ing. Ordinarily, uginaji®-biama is the proper word. 
The first day that Nuda’-axa told this myth, he said as follows: ‘‘The old men 
beat the drum once, and Ietinike jumped up. When they beat it the second time, 
Ictinike leaped higher. Then he leaped still higher when they struck it the third time. 
“Stop! stop!” said Ictinike to the Rabbit’s son. But the Rabbit’s son made the men 
beat the drum the fourth time, when Ictinike jumped so high, that when he came down 
he struck the ground and the shock killed him.” Sanssouci never heard this of the 
Rabbit, but of Waha"¢icige, the Orphan, as Mac‘awakude told me once. 
TRANSLATION. 
At length the Rabbit met Ictinike suddenly. “Wuhu+! O grandchild! O grand- 
child!” said Ictinike. ‘Venerable man, what would you say?” said the Rabbit. 
“O grandchild, kill for me the one bird that is sitting down on its way homeward,” 
said he. And the Rabbit shot at it. He shot it through the body, the arrow 
coming out on the other side. It came falling. It lodged ina tree. “O grandchild! 
pity me, your relation. O grandchild! O grandchild! pity me, your relation, again,” 
said he. “No, venerable man, I will abandon it. Go thou and take it,” he said. 
“No, O grandchild, the arrow is very good, but if you do not take it, who shall have 
it?” said he. “Really!” said he, “the venerable man truly wishes to have his way!” 
And he pulled off all of his clothing. He went climbing the tree. ‘Even there 
where you are, let him stick!” said Ictinike. “What were you saying, venerable 
man?” said the Rabbit. “Why, grandchild! I said nothing. I was saying ‘He 
has gone far for me for a long time!’”” And as he was going (up the tree) it was so 
again. “Stick even there where you are he said. ‘¢‘What were you saying, vener- 
able man?” said he. “Why, grandchild! I said nothing. I was saying ‘He has gone 
far for me for a long time!’” he said. And as he was going it was so again. “Stick 
even there where you are!” he said. ‘ What were you saying, venerable man?” said 
he. “Why, grandchild! I said nothing. O first-born son! I was saying ‘ He has nearly 
reached it for me!’” he said. And again as he was going, it was so again. “Stick 
even there where you are!” said he. ‘What were you saying, venerable man?” he 
said. “I said, ‘Stick even there where you are!’” The Rabbit stuck to the tree. 
And having put on the clothing, Ictinike went to a village, and married one of 
the chief’s daughters. The younger one departed in a bad humor. It came to pass 
that she gazed on high, and behold a person was standing awhile; she found him 
standing sticking to the tree. And she cut down the tree. And having made it fall 
by cutting, she made a fire all along the (fallen) tree. And she caused (the glue?) to 
melt. And he sat with her by the fire. “A person who made me sufier very much 
went to you,” he said. “ Yes,” said she, “he arrived, but my elder sister took him for 
her husband.” And she went homeward with him. “This one who was sulky about 
marrying a man, and went away, has come back with the son of the Rabbit,” they 
