580 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
tome. Beware lest you open youreyes! Should one of you open his eyes, your eyes 
shall be red,” said the Rabbit. Then he sang, 
“Alas for the gazer! 
Eyes red! Eyes red! 
Spread out your tails! 
Spread out your tails!” 
Wherever he found a large one, le seized it and put it in his bag. While he was 
acting thus one of the Turkeys opened his eyes a little, and exclaimed, ‘“‘Why! he 
has nearly exterminated us large ones!” Off they flew with a whirring sound. The 
Rabbit took home those he had in the bag, saying to his grandmother, “‘ Do not look 
at what is in that bag! I have brought it home on my back, and I wish you to guard 
it.” Then he went to cut sticks to serve as spits when the Turkeys were roasted. 
When the old woman was alone she thought, ‘* What could he have brought home on 
his back?” So she untied the bag, and when she Jooked in, out flew all the Turkeys, 
hitting their wings hard against the grass lodge, and flying out the smoke-hole. The 
old woman barely killed one by hitting it with her skirt. At length the Rabbit came 
home. “Oh! I have inflicted a severe injury on my grandchild!” said she. ‘ Really! 
Grandmother, I told you not to look atit!” And then the Rabbit plucked the feathers 
from the Turkey. When he finished that, he dissected the Turkey, took the entrails 
and thrust them at his grandmother, saying, ‘‘ Grandmother, take those entrails.” 
The old woman was standing erect as she worked, and as the Rabbit thrust the 
entrails at her he threw some clotted blood, which hit the pudendum muliebre. ‘ For 
shame! Grandmother, you have scared me nearly to death!” said he. And the old 
woman replied, “Oh! I have scared my grandchild nearly to death!” And she went 
outside the lodge and kindled a fire. Then the Rabbit said that he would invite the 
Pawnees to feast on the Turkey. So he went as a messenger to invite them to the 
feast. On his return he himself knocked the door-flap out from the lodge (towards 
his grandmother ?), and when it fell back in place with a sudden tapping sound he 
called out, as if a Pawnee were speaking, “ Nawa! Si¢e-maka” the chief!” Then the 
grandmother, who was outside, heard this, and she said, “Ob! how well acquainted 
the Pawnees are with my grandchild!” 
The Rabbit lied when he said that he had invited the Pawnees, for he himself sat 
there in the lodge making the replies to his own words. 
THE BIRD CHIEF. 
ToLp BY FRANK La FLECHE. 
Wajin’ga-ma b¢tigaqti wéba’-biamé. Wajin’ga wi"a” wa maxe ké'ya 
* The birds (pl. ob.) all they called them, they Bird which one upper at the 
say. world 
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ta gia” ci ¢a¢iteé nuda”hanga oni” taté ha, a-biamd. Ki bétgaqti 
fur- flying you you who leader § yoube — shall said, they say. And all 
thest reach move 
