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It begins: Rabbit and Marten went home and burrowed a tunnel in the snow, inside t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/) / Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Oj… # Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/) **2** So young girls should not try always to get a nice-looking man, but take the man selected for them.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") The old people tell them this story for a lesson, lest they lose a good man, though not so handsome, to get a “stinker.”[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") (19) The Origin of Snakes.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") A man was one time walking along and came to a lake which he wanted to cross.[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") But he had no canoe, and so he walked along the shore until he saw a big Snake lying in the water with his head on the shore.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") “Will you carry me across?” asked the hunter.[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes,” answered the Snake.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") “But it looks cloudy and I am afraid of the lightning, so you must tell me if it thunders while we are crossing.”[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter got on the Snake’s back and they started to swim across the lake.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") As they went along, thunder began rumbling, “kαx kαx,” and the lightning flashed.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") “Mah, mah, listen!” said the Snake in fear.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") “I hear something.”[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") Just as they reached the shore, when the hunter could leap to safety, a stroke of lightning hit the Snake and broke him into numberless pieces, which began swimming about and finally came to land.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") The great Snake was not killed, but his pieces turned into small snakes which we see all about to-day.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") (20) Muskrat Warns the Beaver.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") The Muskrat, Beaver, Dog, and some Ojibwa were companions and hunters.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") They were real people who could talk to one another.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") They started out one day and came to a small lake and there they saw Beaver houses and families.[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") It was early in the winter.[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") They said, “That’s a good lake to drive the beaver, as it’s all rocky and they can’t escape.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") The season is right, so we will come tomorrow with dogs.”[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beavers were in their houses and they saw the Indians, but they couldn’t hear the talking.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") The Muskrat heard, however, and went to the Beaver and told them.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") “You must look out for yourselves, uncles.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") Those Indians say you are very easy to catch.”[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") Now the Muskrat had stayed outside the Indians’ wigwam and listened to what they were saying, until his feet got so cold that he could stay no longer.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") So that this was all that he had heard to tell his uncle the Beaver.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning the Indians came to the lake and broke the Beaver’s houses, and the big Beaver told the young ones, “When you see a dog passing, whistle.”[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") So the young Beavers went to different places under the ice and when they saw a dog passing, they whistled and all were thus caught and killed by the men.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") But the big Beaver didn’t whistle, and he escaped.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indians said, “Where’s the big Beaver?”[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they went back and had a big feast on those they had caught.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") In those days people used to cut a flat bone from the hind foot of the beaver and throw it into the water, so that the dogs wouldn’t get it.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") These hunters, however, made a mistake and forgot to save that bone.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") They lost it.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") \[47\][144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Indians had their feast, and when they threw the bones into the water, one of the little Beavers came back to life and went back to his parents.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") He said to them, “I had a fine time, father.[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") They hung me over the fire, and I danced for them.”[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") Shortly all the Beavers came back, but one of them said, “I’m very sick, father.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") They didn’t use me right.”[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") This was the Beaver whose bone from his hind foot the hunters had lost.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") He was very sore and disgusted and showed his father the fresh mark of his foot where the flat bone was lost, when they asked him what was the matter.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beavers did not like this and they became angry.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") So nowadays the Indians tell the young boys neither to talk about the Beavers, nor the prospects of a hunt before attacking a beaver colony, lest the Muskrat hear them and tell the Beaver.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") And also, when the hunting dogs suddenly go off from camp and run over the ice, the hunters say the dogs hear the beavers whistling.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") (21) Story of a Hunter.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") There were two men living in a camp with two women and the rest of the band.[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") On a cold day in winter one of the men said he was going to track a moose, and left on his snowshoes.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") He said he would be back by night.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") He was gone all day and by night he had not returned, so his wife began to think that possibly he had shot a moose, but, as he had taken his axe with him, he might have cut himself in some way.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") They waited until morning and then, taking up his trail, they tracked him to where he had shot a moose and farther on to where he had skinned it.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") The meat was there, but the skin was gone.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") Looking around they saw a fire not far off.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") When they reached the fire they discovered that the hunter had rolled himself up in the green hide to sleep, and during the night it had frozen around him and he had been unable to get out.[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") They thawed out the skin and all went back to camp.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") (22) A Timagami Story.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") Once there were a man and his wife living in a bark wigwam.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") The wife grew very fond of another man et voluit copulare cum eo sine cognitione mariti sui.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") They finally hit upon a plan.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") She cut a small hole in the bark near her bedding ut ille cum ea nocte copulare posset.[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") She slept near the hole et omne bene factum est, sed maritus tandem invenit quid fieret.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") So one night he ordered his wife to change places with him when they slept, et cum venisset amator, maritus penem ejus abscidit per orificium positum.[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Tunc membrum virile cepit, without telling his wife what had happened, and went off on a moose hunt.[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") He killed a moose and took its intestine end \[described like an appendix\], secuit penem in fragmenta, mixed these with fat, and made a smoked sausage out of the whole.[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") \[48\] Then he went home and gave it to his wife to eat.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") When she had eaten it, he said, “Nunc edisti penem amatoris tui.”[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") (23) Story of a Fast Runner.[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") Once a hunter was so quick of foot that when he shot his arrow at a beaver plunging into the lake from the shore, he would run down, catch the beaver by the tail before the arrow got to it, and hold it until the arrow struck.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") He was a fast runner, indeed.[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") (24) The Hunter and the Seven Deer.[179](../../179/ "tree and pragmatics") There once was a hunter who lived in a camp.[180](../../180/ "tree and pragmatics") The summer had been very dry and the whole country was on fire.[181](../../181/ "tree and pragmatics") He stayed in his camp, however, although the smoke was so thick that no one could see any distance.[182](../../182/ "tree and pragmatics") One day he saw seven deer walking along, each holding the other’s tail in its mouth.[183](../../183/ "tree and pragmatics") The leader alone could see, and he was guiding the others.[184](../../184/ "tree and pragmatics") So he killed the leader and then took hold of the second deer’s nose, and so lead them all to his camp alive, where he butchered 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