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pragmatics") “It’s well cooked,” said he.[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") He made a big fire.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now I’ll punish you,” ano suo dixit and he held it over the fire.[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") “Tcį·′įį!” clamavit anus ejus.[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") “You can cry all you want to.[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") I’ll punish you,” said Nenebuc, ano suo strepitum urendi faciente.[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") He didn’t feel the burns then.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he started walking.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") Next day he felt a little sick and anus ejus scabi osus fuit.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") In walking he got turned around and saw his own tracks.[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") “Somebody’s passed here,” he said to himself, when he saw them.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he saw some kind of meat lying on the ground, and he tasted it.[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") “Somebody had some meat here,” he said.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the little bird Gitci·′gi·‵tci·gane‵cįc \[15\] (Tom-tit) cried out, “Nenebuc scabies suas edit!”[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh no, those are not my scabs.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") Some old woman passed by and left some dry meat,” said he.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") But at last he discovered se scabies suas edisse, but even then he didn’t care.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") He kept on walking and felt very sick.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") By and by he came upon a brood of young partridges and said, “Where is your mother?”[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") “Our mother is away,” said they.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") “What’s your names?”[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") They answered “Kαckuŋge′s·i” (“Jump out and frighten”).[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc turned around upon hearing this and super totam familiam defaecavit.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") Up to this time the Partridges had been white, but after this they have always been brown.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Nenebuc went to a high bluff near by.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") He was tired, sick, and hungry, and he lay upon the bluff sleeping.[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") Partridge came home and said to his young when he saw what Nenebuc had done to them, “Who did this?”[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") “A man came along and asked us our name and, when we told him ‘Kαckuŋge′s·i,’ super nos defaecavit.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") He said he wasn’t frightened by us.”[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") And so the young Partridges told their father where Nenebuc had gone.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") The old Partridge followed his tracks until he came to where Nenebuc lay on the cliff.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw him lying right on the edge, so he walked up slowly to him and then suddenly buzzed his wings, and Nenebuc jumped up and fell over the cliff.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") As he slid down, anum suum in lapidibus scabit and all the scabs rubbed off.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") As he lay on the ground he saw the scabs and said, “These Indians will call this wa·′kwαní \[16\] and when they go hungry they can make soup for themselves, these Ojibwa, forever.”[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he was cured.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") (d) Nenebuc Prepares a Feast and Gets Caught Between Two Trees, While the Animals Receive a Distribution of Fat.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") After this Nenebuc began travelling again.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") One time he feasted a lot of animals.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") He had killed a big bear, which was very fat and he began cooking it, having made a fire with his bow-drill.[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") When he was ready to spread his meat, he heard two trees scraping together, swayed by the wind.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") He didn’t like this noise while he was having his feast and he thought he could stop it.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") He climbed up one of the trees and when he reached the spot where the two trees were scraping, his foot got caught in a crack between the trees and he could not free himself.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") When the first animal guest came along and saw Nenebuc in the tree, he, the Beaver, said “Come on to the feast, Nenebuc is caught and can’t stop us.”[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") And then the other animals came.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver jumped into the grease and ate it, and the Otter did the same, and that is why they are so fat in the belly.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver scooped up the grease and smeared it on himself, and that is the reason why he is so fat now.[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") All the small animals came and got fat for themselves.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") Last of all the animals came the Rabbit, when nearly all the grease was gone—only a little left.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") So he put some on the nape of his neck and some on his groin and for this reason he has only a little fat in those places.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") So all the animals got their fat except Rabbit.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they all went, and poor Nenebuc got free at last.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked around and found a bear’s skull that was all cleaned except for the brain, and there was only a little of that left, but he couldn’t get at it.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he wished himself to be changed into an ant in order to get into the skull and get enough to eat, for there was only about an ant’s meal left.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") (e) Nenebuc Gets Caught in the Bear’s Skull.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he became an ant and entered the skull.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had enough he turned back into a man, but he had his head inside the skull; this allowed him to walk but not to see.[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") On account of this he had no idea where he was.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he felt the trees.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") He said to one, “What are you?”[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") It answered, “Cedar.”[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") He kept doing this with all the trees in order to keep his course.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got too near the shore, he knew it by the kind of trees he met.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") So he kept on walking and the only tree that did not answer promptly was the black spruce, and that said, “I’m Se·′se·ga‵ndαk” (black spruce).[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Nenebuc knew he was on low ground.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") He came to a lake, but he did not know how large it was, as he couldn’t see.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") He started to swim across.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") An Ojibwa was paddling on the lake with his family and he heard someone calling, “Hey\![167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") There’s a bear swimming across the lake.”[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc became frightened at this and the Ojibwa then said, “He’s getting near the shore now.”[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") So Nenebuc swam faster, and as he could understand the Ojibwa language, he guided himself by the cries.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") He landed on a smooth rock, slipped and broke the bear’s skull, which fell off his head.[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Ojibwa cried out, “That’s no bear\![172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") That’s Nenebuc!”[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc was all right, now that he could see, so he ran off, as he didn’t want to stay with these people.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/11/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/11/) - next →: [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/12/) - ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/)