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The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/12/page/2/) (f) Nenebuc Wounds the Giant Lynx, Disguises Himself in a Toad’s Skin, and Finally Slays Her.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") He had his bow and arrow with him, and as he went along he saw a great snake.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") \[17\] He shot it with his arrow.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") He came to a big lake with a nice, sandy shore, where he saw Lions \[18\] (mici·′bi­zi‵w “giant lynx”).[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He couldn’t shoot them with his arrow as they were too far away, nor was there any place where he could hide himself until they came to sun themselves by the shore, when they felt too cold in the water.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Finally he hit upon a plan.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He took some birch bark from a rotten stump, rolled it into a hollow cylinder, and placed it, like a wigwam, near the shore.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") He got inside and made a little hole in the bark through which to shoot and kill the Lions.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") When the Lions saw the thing on the beach, they grew curious to find out what this strange thing was on the beach that was not there the day before.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") So they sent a big snake to twist around it and to try to upset it, but the snake did not succeed in doing this, for Nenebuc stood too firm.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Lions came ashore upon the sand and Nenebuc shot one of them with his arrow—a she-lion, the wife of the Lion chief.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not kill her, but wounded her badly in the side, and the flint arrow point stayed in the wound.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") She was very badly wounded and went back to a hole which led to a cave in a big rock where she lived.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") \[19\] Nenebuc was sorry that he had not killed the Lion queen.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") As he went along the shore, the next morning, he heard someone singing and shaking a rattle.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc stood there wondering and waiting, and pretty soon he saw an old woman making the song.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went across to see her, and when they met, he asked her, “What are you doing?”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") “I’m a doctor,” she answered.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “The queen of the Lions has been shot by Nenebuc and I am going to cure her.”[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") She didn’t know that it was Nenebuc to whom she was talking, for she was too old.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") So Nenebuc told her, “Let me hear you singing.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Is that what you are going to do to cure her?”[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes, I will sing and then pull out that arrow.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The Lions had sent for her at the foot of the lake to cure the queen.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc picked up a club and killed her, saying, “You are no doctor (macki·ki·′winini‵k·we ‘medicine-person woman’) at all.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he discovered that she was no person at all, but a big toad (omα′kαk·i·‵).[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") So he skinned her and put on the skin.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") The skin had a hole in the groin, and as he had no needle to sew it up with, his scrotum hung out when he put it on himself.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") This did not worry Nenebuc, for he thought, “It will be all right, unless they notice me too closely.”[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") So he walked past the cave in which the Lions lived and kept singing and rattling all the time.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") When the young lions heard him, they said, “There’s the old medicine woman coming.”[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") They were very glad to think that their mother would be cured.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") So they opened the door in the rock and Nenebuc went in, and one of the daughters came to meet him and said, “Come in, old woman.”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") They were very much pleased.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc said, “Don’t shut the doors.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Leave them open, as the queen needs plenty of fresh air!”[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") \[20\] Then he said, “I’m hungry.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") I’ve had a long walk and I’m tired.”[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they gave him a good meal first.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") While he was eating, he sat with open legs and the children cried out, “Look at the old woman with testicles hanging out!”[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") But the older ones told them to be silent, as they thought some old women had testicles.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had finished eating, Nenebuc said, “Don’t watch me.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") I’m going to pull out the arrow point.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") You will hear her suffering and me singing, but don’t look until you hear her stop suffering.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she will be cured, and the arrow point will be out.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") So don’t look, for I am going to cure her.”[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he began rattling and singing, and, as he did so, he shoved the arrow point farther into the wound of the queen in order to kill her.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") When she yelled, her people thought that the hurt was caused in pulling it out.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") At last one of the little lion children peeped and saw Nenebuc pushing the arrow farther in.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") He told his sister, “That’s Nenebuc himself inside!”[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Nenebuc ran outside and the Queen Lion was dying.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc had difficulty to clear himself.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") He pulled off the toad skin and tried to climb up the rock.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") (g) The Giant Lynx Causes the World Flood and Gathers the Animals on a Raft; Muskrat Dives for Earth, which Nenebuc Transforms into a New World.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the queen died, a giant stream poured out of the cave and the lake began rising.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") “That is going to flood the world and be the end,” said Nenebuc.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") So he cut trees and made a kind of raft.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") \[21\] So he had his raft ready, and the end of the world came.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") He couldn’t see any trees, water covered everything, and he made the flood.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw all kinds of animals swimming toward his raft and he took them on.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come on, come on,” he cried, “and stay here.”[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") For he wanted to save them, so that after the flood there would be all kinds of animals.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") The animals stayed on the raft with him for a long while.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") Some time after this he made a rope of roots and tied it to the Beaver’s tail, telling him to dive and to try and reach the land underneath.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") He knew the water would get lower afterwards.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver couldn’t reach the land and he came up to the surface of the water again.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") Seven days after this he allowed the Muskrat to try and bring the land.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Muskrat dove and they waited for a long time, but he didn’t come up.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") This Muskrat doubled up and put his nose into the hair of his breast which enabled him to breathe by the bubbles clinging there.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") By doing this he could rest and dive still deeper.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") At last he used up all the air in his breast hair and could only grab a little piece of mud.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he started up to the surface of the water, but drowned before he reached the raft.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc pulled the Muskrat in and he still was holding the mud.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc said, “I am going to dry this.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as it is dry, you can all run around again and have this world.”[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") So he dried it, but not entirely, and that is the reason why some parts of the world are swampy and wet, while others are dry like this.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") So the animals had the earth again and the world was made.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") (h) Nenebuc Sends Crow Out, for Disobedience Changes Him Black and Gull Partly Black, then Retires to the West, until He Will Return Again.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") Nenebuc knew the world was round like a ball, but he didn’t know how large it was.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") He was sitting down, tired.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") So he said to Crow, “Go fly around the world and don’t eat until you come back again.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") If you do, we will know it.”[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") Crow at that time was white.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") Crow had to do as he was told, because Nenebuc was chief of all men and animals.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") So Crow started and flew and flew along the salt water beach.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he became very hungry and wondered how far he was away from Nenebuc.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") One morning he was flying along the shore and he saw an old dead fish.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") He was so hungry that he tasted a little bit of it, and finally made a meal of it.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") When he finished eating, he found he had turned black.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the way Crow became black.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") When Crow reached the place from which he started out, he found Nenebuc and all the animals waiting for him.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") He told Nenebuc that he had eaten, and then Nenebuc said to Gull, “You go try.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") Do the same and don’t eat until you come here.”[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") So Gull went.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got to the same place at which Crow had felt hungry, Gull felt hungry.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") One morning he saw the same dead fish.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") He thought, “Well, I mustn’t eat it, for if I do, I’ll be as black as Crow.”[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") He took one mouthful and started flying.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") When Gull returned, Nenebuc could see a little black on his wings, so he said, “Gull has had a mouthful too.”[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/12/page/2/) - ← previous: [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 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