--- title: Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7 — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · full text with trees description: Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, «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/pg66509/17/page/2/) Rabbit and Marten went home and burrowed a tunnel in the snow, inside the wigwam.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they both went into a hole to hide and closed the hole behind them.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") When Lynx reached home, he was unable to find his wives, but he knew they were somewhere near.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") So he began to pull up testes suos in se and then he began dancing.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") \[45\] He said to himself, “When they hear this funny thing, they will laugh.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon Marten laughed, and Lynx, digging her out of the hole, killed and ate her.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he grew hungry and tried the same trick.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") But Rabbit was very much afraid and would not laugh.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Lynx kept on doing this for some time and finally gave it up.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He sat near the fire and cut his belly open, taking out some of his intestines which he roasted and ate.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") At last, when he had eaten all his intestines, he came to his heart.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") When he pulled at this, “Huk, huk”! it made a noise.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") At last he jerked and pulled at it so hard that he died.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the end.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") But all the grandchildren of Lynx have testicles as they are to-day.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") (15) Story of Seal Rock in Lake Timagami.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Once upon a time, on a small island in Lake Timagami, some people went ashore, and one of the women left her baby in a cradle-board on a rock, while she went a short distance off.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") When she came back, the baby was gone; it had been taken by a big manitu (magic) seal who lived in a rock and he had taken the child inside with him.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The child’s father was also a manitu, so he began burrowing and digging into the rock for his baby and he dug a channel.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") This hole is there yet.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") When he reached the baby, it was dead, and the seal was gone.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") It had dived and crossed two miles under water to Seal island and gone into a big rock there.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") He dove and followed, as he was mi·te·′ and came to the big rock where the seal had gone in.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") With his chisel he split the rock, but the seal escaped.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The rock is there yet, split down the centre.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") (16) Rabbit, Lynx, and Fisher.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") At the time of which my story speaks Lynx and Fisher had the same sharp nose and face.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Fisher used to jump right through a big boulder as high as a man whenever he wanted to.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") One day he told Lynx to try to beat him and jump through.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") So Lynx tried to do it and smashed his face flat, as it is now.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") He went away very sore.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he met Rabbit.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “Kwe, kwe,” Lynx asked Rabbit, “where are you going?”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Rabbit answered, “I am going to the short flat-faced country.”[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Lynx did not understand the joke, and he let Rabbit pass.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Lynx went on and came to a stream into whose waters he looked, and saw some flints.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") He tried to reach some to pick them up and beheld himself in the water.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") He discovered how ugly he was.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") “I’m so ugly.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") That is what Rabbit meant when he met me.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") I’ll fix him.”[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went back, struck Rabbit’s trail, and followed him.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") So he followed the trail until it went into a hole in the snow under a bush.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Lynx looked in and saw Rabbit sitting there, reading.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") He asked Rabbit, “Has anybody been passing here lately Hee!”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Rabbit made no answer.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Lynx asked this question twice and at last Rabbit spoke, “Tsc, tsc, it’s Sunday to-day.”[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Lynx asked the same question again and received the same reply.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Rabbit said, “Why don’t you go around and find his track?”.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") When Lynx went around, Rabbit ran out and off.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") When Lynx saw him run, he chased him and caught him.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") “Can you talk English?” said Lynx.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes,” answered Rabbit.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, can’t you talk white?”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes,” answered Rabbit.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, if you don’t talk white, I’ll kill you.”[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") So Rabbit had to talk white.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, what do you call ‘fire’ in English.”[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") “Wayaʻkabi·′te” (people sitting around a fire), answered Rabbit.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") “How do they say ‘axe’ there?”[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") “Me′ma­towes‵iŋg” (“noise of chopping”).[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") “What do you call knife?” asked Lynx.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") “Taya′tacki·‵wəgis·e” (“sliced meat”), answered Rabbit.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are a liar”, said Lynx.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ki·niŋgwa‵zəm, you are a liar.”[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") And he killed Rabbit.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") (17) Snaring the Sun.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") There was once a boy who used to set his snares for his living.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") One day he saw a track where the snow was melted, and after a while he decided to set his snares there and catch the animal that made the tracks.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") So he set his snare and went away.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") That track was the sun’s track, and when the sun came by next day, it got caught.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") The sun didn’t rise the next day and there was steady darkness.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") The people began to be puzzled.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where did you set your snare?” they asked him.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") He told them, and they went to look.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") There they saw the sun caught, but no one could go near enough to loosen it A number of animals tried to do this, but they all got burned.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") At last the Beaver-mouse managed to cut it with his teeth and freed it.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") But his teeth got burned with the heat, and so they are brown to this day, but the sun is here and we have the daylight.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") (18) Homo Excrementi.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") There were a number of people camping, and one man was camping by himself.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") He was a young man and he tried to get his neighbour’s daughter to marry him, but she wouldn’t have him, saying that he was not good enough.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") And so the young man went back and forth trying to get a wife.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the people went away to another place to camp, as it was getting spring, but the young man stayed back.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") He was full of mite·′win.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") \[46\] He planned to have revenge upon the girl who would not have him.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") He collected omne excrementum quod invenire potuit and made it into the shape of a man.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") He was determined to settle with the girls who had refused him, for he was full of revenge.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had made the man alive, he sent him to where the girls were camping.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") The new creature was frozen nice and hard, he was nice-looking, and he could talk.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") And so Homo excrementi came, early in the morning, crunching through the snow to where the girls were in camp.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") When they saw him coming, they cried, “Somebody’s coming.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") Make a fire.”[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") And when he reached the camp every one received him in fine style, as he was such a nice fellow.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where do you come from?[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") Who is your father?” they asked him.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") “Hump-back,” said he.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") “Who is your mother?”[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") “Flat-set excrementum,” answered he.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") But the old people did not understand him.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") He was unable to stay near the fire long, for fear he would melt.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") They wished him to stay at the camp, but he couldn’t, so he hurried away.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") Then one of the girls who had refused the young man in marriage followed him and he led her a long chase.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") She began to feel it grow warmer (it was April) and soon she found one of his mittens and later his hat.[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") At last it became so warm that she came to the place where he had melted altogether et ibi erat agger excrementi.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") When she examined the hat, internum ejus excrementi illitum invenit.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") So she went back home saying, “Good for him, he’s melted.[106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") I’m glad he is melted.”[107](107/ "tree and pragmatics") She couldn’t catch him anyway, so she was angry.[108](108/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/page/2/) - ← previous: [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/16/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/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/)