--- title: Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3 — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · full text with trees description: Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. 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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/pg66509/13/page/2/) Next morning Wemicus started out for home and left his mitten behind as he had done with Ninicip.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Muskrat’s wife sent a child after him and told the child, “Don’t go too close to Wemicus.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He’s always in mischief.”[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Everything happened as before.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The child threw the mitten to Wemicus and Wemicus sent an invitation to Muskrat to come to his home the next day.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") As Wemicus went on his way he had some potatoes which Muskrat had given him for his family.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Half way home he rested and thought he would eat the potatoes, as they looked very good.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") So he ate every one.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am the one who works hard,” he said to himself.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “My family can wait until Muskrat comes.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") When he reached home he told his wife, “Muskrat is also starving.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") I brought nothing.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Muskrat is coming tomorrow to see us.”[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Next day Muskrat came and they put him on the opposite side of the wigwam.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus said, “We have nothing much, but, wife, make a fire in the hot sand.”[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The wife answered, “I suppose you saw somebody else do something.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Don’t you try any more mischief.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") But he made his wife make the fire.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") He then went out and returned with the sack full of ice, which he dumped on the fire.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The sack blew up all over everybody and put out the fire.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Then his wife said, “I suppose you saw someone do that again.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") She made another fire and Muskrat said, “Give me that bag.”[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") He went out and brought back the sack full of ice, dumped and buried it in the fire, and, after a while, they got the potatoes.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") All of them had a good meal.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning, before Muskrat left, he got them another bag of potatoes.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus does not work, although his family is so large.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, pretty soon the whole family was starving again.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Then said Wemicus, “I must go and see Meme (pileated woodpecker), my son-in-law.”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") He went into the bush and when he reached Meme’s wigwam he found a large white pine in back of it.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") He noticed that Meme had a sharp pointed nose.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw that Meme had not much to live on, but nevertheless Meme told his wife to get the cooking pail ready.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Meme began climbing the pine tree, which was at the back of his wigwam, and began pecking in the trunk with his nose.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon he came down with a raccoon.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") \[27\] When Wemicus saw this, he thought, “That is a great thing; I must try it.”[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Meme burned off the hair and cleaned the raccoon, and shared the meat on a stick to each one.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus received the best part, as he was the grandfather.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning they had another raccoon to eat.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Then everything happened as before.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus was given a raccoon to take home.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") He left his mitten behind, and sent an invitation to Meme to visit him the next day.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") On the way home Wemicus thought to himself, “I wonder how this raccoon tastes cold.”[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") So he ate the entire raccoon.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got home, he told his wife that Meme was starving but that he was coming to visit them the following day.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") They put the wigwam in order and Wemicus fixed up a big pine like that belonging to Meme and cut two pieces of wood, which he pointed and shoved into his nose to imitate Meme.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") When Meme came along he saw Wemicus sitting there with sticks in his nose.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus told his wife, as usual, to prepare for supper, and she told him that they had nothing.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") When she had the water boiling in the pail, Wemicus climbed up the tree and pecked upon it in imitation of Meme.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He fell down, however, and drove the sticks into his head.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") He fell into the fire, but after a while he gained consciousness.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Meme stepped out of the wigwam, climbed the tree, and brought down a raccoon.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") And then the whole family had a good supper.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Next morning Meme got another raccoon and left it for the family, and then went home.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Still Wemicus did nothing and the family was again in a starving condition.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Then said Wemicus, “I have some more sons-in-law and one is close.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") I will go and see him; he will help me until open water.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") \[28\] I will go and see Skunk.”[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") So he set out to visit Skunk.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus was pretty hungry and Skunk was farther off than the rest of the sons-in-law, but he finally reached his home.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus found Skunk’s water hole \[29\] and saw a great quantity of oil in it.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") He knew that Skunk must have killed a great deal of game.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went into Skunk’s wigwam and saw a great quantity of food.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") Skunk said, “We don’t have much.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") It is long since I hunted.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") But come outside.”[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") There Wemicus saw a piece of ground fenced in.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Skunk then produced a little birch bark horn \[30\] and said, “What will you have?”[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") Skunk now blew on his horn and all kinds of game came inside the enclosure.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Skunk deinde pepedit and killed whatever kind Wemicus wanted.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") They then skinned what he killed and fried it for supper.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") In the morning Skunk said to Wemicus, “I’ll give you three shots and a horn.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") You can make a fence for yourself.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") This horn will last forever, as long as you don’t lose it.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") If you do, it will be bad.”[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Skunk gave Wemicus three shots to be used in the future, and he did this urinando super eum to load him up three times.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not give him any food, because he would be able to get enough for himself.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Wemicus thought, “Now I am going to do something.”[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") As Wemicus was on his way home he said to himself, “I wonder if it will go off!”[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") So, just as he was passing a tree stump, pepedit at the stump and blew it up.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") “That’s fine, but I have only two more shots left,” said he.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") Later he tried the same thing and then only had one left.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") A little while after this he saw a big pine tree, and thought he would try a shot at this.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") So he blew up the pine tree, and so used up all his shots.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") When he reached his wigwam, he showed his wife the horn which Skunk had given him, saying, “Skunk gave me that.”[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he built a large fence of poles.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") He told his wife to hold the horn and stay near by, while he got a club to kill the game with.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he blew on the horn and the fence was filled with bear, deer, and all kinds of animals.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") Although he had no shots left, Wemicus managed to kill one caribou, and his wife was very happy.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") He cut the fat from the breast of the caribou, made a fire, and got some grease from it.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") He then spilled the caribou grease in his water hole in order to deceive Skunk and make him believe that he had a great quantity of meat.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") Not long after this Skunk started out to visit Wemicus and, on his way, he passed the three stumps which Wemicus had blown up and knew that he had no more shots left.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") When he reached Wemicus’ water hole he said, “I guess he got one any way.”[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") When he came to the wigwam, he found that Wemicus and his family had hardly any meat left, so he said to Wemicus, “Come out and let me see your fence.”[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") They went out and Wemicus blew his horn, and inside the fence it became full of game.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") Skunk pepedit and killed all of them, and then Wemicus and his family had plenty.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") Skunk stayed over night and departed the next morning.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus had another son-in-law who was a man.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") This man’s wife, the daughter of Wemicus, had had a great many husbands, because Wemicus had put them to so many different tests that they had been all killed off except this one.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") He, however, had succeeded in outwitting Wemicus in every scheme that he tried on him.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus and this man hunted beaver in the spring of the year by driving them all day with dogs.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") The man’s wife warned him before they started out to hunt, saying, “Look out for my father; he might burn your moccasins in camp.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") That’s what he did to my other husbands.”[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") \[31\] That night in camp Wemicus said, “I didn’t tell you the name of this lake.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") It is called ‘burnt moccasins lake.’”[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") When the man heard this, he thought that Wemicus was up to some sort of mischief and was going to burn his moccasins.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") Their moccasins were hanging up before a fire to dry and, while Wemicus was not looking, the man changed the places of Wemicus’ moccasins and his own, and then went to sleep.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon the man awoke and saw Wemicus get up and throw his own moccasins into the fire.[106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") Wemicus then said, “Say! something is burning; it is your moccasins.”[107](107/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the man answered, “No, not mine, but yours.”[108](108/ "tree and pragmatics") So Wemicus had no moccasins, and the ground was covered with snow.[109](109/ "tree and pragmatics") After this had happened the man slept with his moccasins on.[110](110/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/13/page/2/) - ← previous: [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/12/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/13/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/)