108 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
107, 8. ge¢ica™-qa¢ica®, etc. J. La Fléche says it should read, “When he stopped 
dancing, he struck four of the chiefs who were in a line with the lodge, and broke in 
their heads.” 
107, 11. u‘ude ¢e¢a® ska. J. La Fléeche says that the Rabbit passed through a small 
hole in the ground; but his wife told me that he found a small opening in the ranks 
of the men who surrounded him before the dance. 
TRANSLATION. 
Wahat¢icige lived with his grandmother. ‘O grandmother, let me go to the 
village.” ‘‘Why! grandchild, they will maltreat you. Do not go.” ‘No, grandmother, 
I will go at any rate.” He went thither. He reached the village. ‘ Ho! ho! the Rab- 
bit has come.” ‘Take him to the chiefs.” “The Rabbit has come to see you,” they 
-said to the chiefs. “Come, bring him hither. Pass on to the middle. Assemble ye, 
and surround him.” To the Rabbit the chiefs said, ‘‘Come, you shall dance.” ‘Come,” 
said he, “sing for me.” ‘*Come, Rabbit, as you are fat on the shoulder alone, you are 
one that cannot satisfy one’s hunger.” And as they sang for him, he danced. When 
he stopped dancing, he said, ‘I break in the skulls of four chiefs at one side.” “He 
said, ‘I will strike them and break in their skulls,’” exclaimed the bystanders. ‘“Sur- 
round him. Cut off his retreat.” He struck four chiefs and broke in their skulls. 
And he fled homeward. They did not overtake him. And as he fled homeward, he 
entered a hole this size (i. ¢., the size of a hen’s egg) and went homeward. He got 
home to his grandmother. ‘Grandmother, give me a piece of iron,” said he. And 
she said, “‘I have no iron at all; there is only this piece of a hide-scraper.” ‘‘Let me 
have it,” he said. And when he threw it suddenly through the door, he made it cover 
the lodge. And when his pursuers came up, he said to them, “‘ How can you possibly 
kill me? Begone. You are standing for nothing.” The End. 
WAHA*GICIGE AND WAKANDAGI. 
FRANK La FLECHE’s VERSION. 
Waha™ ¢icige aka wahita"¢i" wi" a¢i’-biamé. Inddda™ wajinga 
Orphan the (sub.) gun (bow) one had they say. What bird 
fkida-bi ctéwa"  muttona®-baji-hna”-biamd. Ki ‘ibae a¢é-biama. Ki 
he shotatwith notwithstand- he missed not regu- they say. And hunting went they say. And 
it, they say ing shooting larly 
niaci"ga wi akipa-biama, cinuda™ ska-qti-hna™ na™ba jiwag¢é-biama. 
person one he met they say, dog very white (all over) two he ee with they say. 
them 
Ma"™ze-weti" kéde digi¢a amama. Kagéha, mddda™ aoni” a, A-biamad 
Sword the (past) carryingon was, they say. Friend what youhave ? said, they say 
his arm 
niacitga ak’. Kagéha, ma™ ab¢i’, A-biami Waha¢icige aka. Indida” 
person the (sub.). Friend arrow — L have, said, they say Orphan the (sub.). What 
