572 THE ¢EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
ite petits ee 5 P o Gero 
edi ahf-biamaé. Ki ci u¢tika™onin’de-ma da ¢a" ti¢a®-bi-dé daéhi kédita 
there they arrived And fat those who did not look head the he held while neck from the 
there, they say. handsome with it part them, (ig. ob.) 
they say 
wi¢iskeba-bi-dé waci” oé wenacai-de, wi¢icta® ¢é¢é-na”-biama. Evite 
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he scraped them while fat the he took when, letting them he was sending them reg- 
with his hand, they scattered from go ularly, they say. length 
say (in. ob.) them 
w= vi qe *n/ re , Tr . , Oi 1s w r oen/ / Alenia) 
Mactein’ ge édi a¢i™ ahi-biama. ‘‘Wieb¢i" ta minke ha. Wi ci” a®¢a” wanka™ pi 
Rabbit there having he reached Iamtheone I who will 5 I fat it makes me handsome 
him there, they say. 
ti minke ha,” 4-biamé Mactcin’ge aké. ‘“Hindaké! gi-ga ha,” a-biama.— 
I who will ; said, they Rabbit the (sub.). Let us see! come ! said, they 
say say. 
1 *n/ . rN, / . rye eet / *n/ ~ a . , 1 
Ga® ci” oixa-biama. “(i da qti u¢i¢ikatonin’de ci” té,” (4-biamd). Ga™ 
And tat he made him, they You  beyoud it makes you ugly fat the, (said, they say). And 
Say. measure 
dé ¢a™ u¢a™-bi ega”, ahi hidé ¢andita" ¢iskéba-biama yi, abayt ¢a® 
head the he seized, as (=hav- neck base from the scraped off with the when, spacebe- the 
part they say ing), part hands, they say tween the part 
shoulders 
. . pane , ‘ns aie 2 r , 
u¢isp i¢é¢a-biamd nfacitga aké. Ada™ ci"’-na" ¢an’di Abaytii unticka ¢a” 
he pulled it suddenly, they person the There- fat only on the space be- depression the 
say (sub.). fore part tween the part 
shoulders 
endqtei waci" hébe A¢aha-na™ ama, edita". Kgi¢e Miya aka endqtei 
that only fat meat part adheres to, usu- they since then. Atlength Raccoon the he only 
ally say : (sub.) 
. , . , , Oy r (a , “7 . , 
ci” u¢tika"pi-biama, dda” juga béiga waci" a¢aha gidxa-biama. 
fat made him handsome, there- body whole fat meat adhering made for him, 
they say, fore to they say. 
NOTE. 
571, 5. b¢ugaqti, pronounced b¢u+gaqti by the narrator. 
TRANSLATION. 
At the first the quadrupeds were made fat. And he who made them wished to 
know to which one the fat was becoming. So he called all the quadrupeds. And 
they collected there. He seized by the head each quadruped to whom the fat was not 
becoming, scraping off the fat from the neck downward, thus depriving the quadruped 
of it before releasing him. At length some one took the Rabbit to him. ‘TI will be 
the one! Fat will become me,” said the Rabbit. ‘Let us see! Come!” said he who 
made the quadrupeds. And he made the Rabbit fat. ‘Fat is more unbecoming to 
you than to any other quadruped,” said the being. So the being seized the Rabbit by 
the head and scraped off the fat from the base of the neck. But he pulled suddenly 
at the flesh in the space between the shoulders. Therefore, since then there has been 
a depression in the space between the shoulders of a rabbit, and only in that place is 
there a piece of fat adhering to that quadruped. At length the person saw that the 
Raccoon was the only quadruped to whom fat was becoming, so he made the whole 
body of the Raccoon fat. 
