68 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
having twisted off their heads in succession, Ictinike sat filling.the bag. The bag 
he filled that high; he filled it very full. A small half-grown Turkey was about to 
comprehend (the situation as he moved along), he walked with his eyes open a little 
now and then. “He is destroying the largest ones among us. There is cause for 
anger! It is Ictinike who is standing (here), but (we did not recognize him),” he 
said. “K’i!” They went fleeing. ‘‘Ha! ha! How easy it is to fill myself to reple- 
tion,” said Ictinike. He laughed till he panted excessively. He bound up the bag. And 
he cut sticks (as) roasting-sticks. He put them (the birds) to roast all around the 
fire. When they were almost done, the branch of a tree raised by the wind, said, “‘I"!” 
“J am roasting them on account of my eating. Why do you cluck at me?” said 
Ictinike. “If you do this any more, I will go to you and hit you.” When he arrived 
there (up the tree) he thrust in his arm several times. And it closed on his hands. 
“Friend, I wished to jest, so those things (I did and said). Friend, let me go,” 
said he. And it continued so without letting him go. ‘Ho!! those yonder! I put 
my own pieces there for safety. Go ye further off!” said he, referring to the Big 
Wolves. ‘Ietinike says that he has put the pieces away for safety,” said they 
(the Wolves). They promised that those who should be the first to arrive were to 
eat the fat wrapped around the stomach. They went dashing towards it. They 
went suddenly, running a race. Having arrived there, they bit it. They swallowed 
it. Having swallowed it, they departed in different directions. And what closed on 
(Ietinike) opened itself. And having reached home at the bottom again, Ietinike 
was soon sitting and putting down the sticks as he licked them. He departed and 
walked along the shores of a row of round lakes. It happened that a big turtle was 
sitting there, by the shore of the lake. He took it, catching hold of the tail. He 
took it off to one side. “I will make myself full in a while!” said he. He broke 
wood (branches?) again. He piled up the wood very high, and put it in (the fire). 
He made the fire burn very fast. And he put the big turtle very quickly into the 
ashes. He put it in to bake, and he was about to eat it. When it was nearly done, 
Ictinike was sleepy. ‘I am sleepy. When it is cooked, you shall awaken me, O 
ane,” said he. He slept. While he slept a person arrived there. The person took 
the big turtle, and ate it. When he had swallowed it, immediately he took the feet 
and thrust them (in their places) against the turtle-shell. He made Ictinike’s hands 
very greasy for him; he also made his mouth very much smeared with grease. The 
person departed. Ictinike awoke. He arose suddenly. ‘What I roasted for myself 
is cooked too much for me!” he said. He pulled out the feet and they were coming to 
him. “It is done,” said he. ‘Why! I wonder if I have eaten mine,” he said. “ Why! 
I must have swallowed it and then slept.” Having looked at his hands, he said, 
“Yes, I have swallowed my own.” He felt his stomach lengthwise (that is, running 
the hand all along it). ‘Yes, I am very full indeed after eating,” said he. When 
he departed, it came to pass that there were a great number of Elk. Having peeped, 
Ictinike discovered them. ‘Stop! I will tempt these!” he thought. The Elk having 
discovered him, said, “ This one is Ictinike.” ‘Friend younger brother, it is I. 
Friend younger brother,” said Ictinike, “I wish to live just as you do.” “Well, 
venerable man, there is no reason at all for this!” said one. ‘When the vegetation 
consists of bitter weeds, I eat straight along as I walk (rejecting none). How is it 
possible for your heart to feel good when you eat them?” ‘Not so, friend younger 
