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‘*Be ready to toss him, my Horn [ I am going away from here. Watch 
this bear! — You cannot avoid his tossing you. So then, he will kill you, as 
soon as you budge!” 
So he stuck it upright there. He left it; he went away. 
When winter had passed and summer had come again, “Suppose I go 
have a look at my little brother,” he thought. 
He went there; what had become of him! That bear had starved to 
death. 
“Heh! That is what I told you: certainly, if you had budged, at once 
this Horn of mine would have killed you!” 
That is the end of this sacred story. 
(9) Wisahketchahk and the Rapids 
Coming-Day 
kd-kisikdw-pihiukdw. 
“ nmm ! ” dh-wdpahtahk pdwistik ; “ nmm ! ” 
“ way ! ” itik. 
“ ‘ tdpwd nisipwdwdmun ! ’ kitdyihtdn. kimawindhutin, avnna kiyipa 
kd-kihtimit, ” itdw. 
“ a, namuya ! iyikuhk ta-pdn-dsklwik,^ dkuyikuhk niklh-itik kdhtdwinaw 
torklskuwdydn, ” itik. 
“ d, mdka kimh-mawindhutin ! ” 
dmis ltdyihtam : “ pipuhkih ta-klskuwdw, ” dh-itdyimdL 
dkutah ndhapiw dkwak vnsahkdtsdhk, um dh-pdhtdkwaniyik. dkwah 
umis Itwdw msahkdtsdhk : “ hlblblbP ! ” 
apiw dkutah. piyisk pipuniyiw. dhtsi pikuh dkutah apiw, pisisik dkus 
dh-iiwdt, “ blblblbl ! ” 
piyis nlpin. miyuskamiw. dkwah konah kahkiyaw nama kdkway. 
dkwah mistahi nipiy dtah pdy-aydyiw, itah dh-apit. piyisk umayikuhk^ 
iskupdw nipiy. dkuyikuhk pasikdw, pdyak askiy, “ blblblbl I ” dh-itwdt. 
dmis Itwdw : “ wdtsistakd nama kih-dyiwdkitundmdw nisim I ” itwdw. 
dkus dh-sipwdhtdt. 
dkusih dkuyikuhk dyakdw. 
“Little brother!” when he saw the rapids; “Little brother!” 
“Yes, what is it?” it answered him. 
“ ‘Truly, I keep long at my noise!' you think. I challenge you to see 
which of us will weary first,” he told it. 
“Oh, no! When the green earth ceases to be, only then did Our Father 
tell me to cease from my noise,” it told him. 
“Oh, but I mean to challenge you!” 
He thought, “In winter it will stop”; that was what he thought of it. 
Then Wisahketchahk sat down there where its sound was heard. 
And Wisahketchahk said, “Blblblbl!” 
^ dskiy means not only "earth,” but also "summer” and "year,” double meaning 
ind misunderstanding are probably essential to the story. 
® Sound made by pulling tongue back and forth between rounded lips, with voicing. 
® Gesture to chest. 
