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He did not know that the other had already eaten his geese. So now 
he took one of those feet. There was not any goose. 
“Oho, I have overcooked him!" he said. 
At last he took them all out; every one was gone; only the feet were 
there. 
“Oho, it’s surely Fox has been fooling me again, eating up my geese! 
And so I am to stay hungry!" he cried; “Ho, you have got me angry, Fox! 
The earth will not be big enough for you to escape. It was I created the 
earth; I will find you; and when I find you, who ate up my geese!” cried 
Wisahketchahk, as he went off to look for Fox. 
He had not gone far, when he saw him taking a nap, his belly all big; 
for he had eaten a hearty fill. He took up a stone, to strike him. 
“Yah!" he said; “I shall ruin his hide," he said; “I might as well 
have a cap of his fox-pelt!” he said; “I had better make a fire round him 
so that he chokes in the smoke," he said. 
The other was listening to what he said about him. So then he made 
a fire, setting fire to the grass round about. When the blaze came. Fox 
got up. The smoke was getting too thick for him. 
“Ha," said Wisahketchahk; “Haha, just you eat up my geese again!" 
he said to him. 
Fox dashed about in a circle, this way and that, as the smoke grew 
denser. At last Wisahketchahk could see him no more. Up leaped Fox, 
jumping across the flame, and making for safety. Wisahketchahk did not 
see how he ran away. At last there was a big fire, and Wisahketchahk 
kept walking round it. 
“I have surely put an end to Fox; burning him to death,” said Wisah- 
ketchahk; and when he saw the ashes lying, where there had been buffalo- 
dung, “Surely I have burned him to a sorry end!” said he; “I shall eat 
what is left of him, if there is any of him left from the fire,” he thought; 
and he was going to take up the ashes there, thinking, “And this must be 
Fox, burned up in this fire," as he deceived himself. 
Even now he did not know that the other had got away. 
And so this is the end of this sacred story. 
When he kicked Hell-Diver, “Now then, ahead in future time mortal 
man will grow up; he will see here on you where I have kicked your rump 
crooked. 'Hell-Diver,’ they will call you. You will not be handsome; 
too much have you angered me by telling this and by opening your eyes,” 
he told him. 
So much for this. 
(7) Wisahketchahk as a Captain 
Louis Moosomin 
ndh-nmniskwdkd'paw. 
kltahtawd dsah sa-sipwdhtdw ; ayisk misiwd klh~tdtam msahkdtsdhk. 
ahpok kl-kaskihtdw dh-undtinikdwukimdwit. 
kdtahtawd sipwdhtdw dsah, o, papamuhtdw. kltahtawd wdskahikan ^ 
kdh-dtihtahk. 
^Properly “stockade”; used of the trading-post forts, and of white men’s houses 
generally. This is the first of many foreign features in this tale: Wisahketchahk is here 
among white people. 
