--- title: Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · full text with trees description: Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, «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. It begins: (3) Wiske·djak Invites the Ducks to a Dance. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/6/) [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/) / Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 # Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck: the whole text, 178 sentences and 2848 words. 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/pg66509/6/page/2/) (3) Wiske·djak Invites the Ducks to a Dance.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Wiske·djak was always hungry.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") One time, in the autumn of the year, he noticed the flocks of ducks flying south and how fat they were.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he made up his mind to try and get some for a good supply against the winter.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He decided to make a big dance among the birds in the autumn and to invite all the ducks and geese to come, so that he could kill them.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he set to work and built a big wigwam and cleaned a nice place around the outside.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He built a little fire in the middle of the wigwam and fixed a nice space all around it for the dance to take place.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he made his door of birch bark, so that the centre stick, which keeps the bark spread, extended over the ends of the bark and kept it from opening inwards.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Now, everything was about ready, so he went to see a Duck and said to him, “Soon, now, you will be going away south to be gone all winter and not to come back until next spring.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") It will be a long time before I will see you again, so I want to get up a dance for you all.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") You go and invite all your friends—the Ducks, the Geese and the others who go south.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") “All right,” said the Duck.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") So he got ready and went back to his wigwam to wait for the company.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") To help invite the birds, he sat down in front of it and got his drum and rattle and began singing a song of invitation.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") As the ducks came flying by overhead, they heard his song and came down to join the party.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") He sang his song and told them, “You are going away to be gone until next spring, and I won’t see you for a long time, so I want to get up a dance for you all, before you go.”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") A lot of them came down and he gathered a crowd outside.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he said, “Now, let us go inside and have our good time,” and he opened the door and they all went in.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he fixed the small fire in the middle so that it would just give enough light to see a little.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” said he, “you must obey the rule of this dance and do whatever you are told when you hear the order.”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He sat down on one side of the fire near the door and they all began dancing around.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") They got well mixed up before long—the geese, ducks, loons, and all kinds of birds, and Ciŋgəbis \[3\] was there too.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got them warmed up to the dance, they all got mixed up and soon Wiske·djak said, “Now, you must all close your eyes and not open them until I give the word.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they obeyed and kept on dancing with their eyes closed.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, while their eyes were closed, Wiske·djak got up and began wringing the neck of one after another.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") The noise of the dancing prevented them from hearing what he was doing.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon, Ciŋgəbis began to suspect that Wiske·djak was moving around, so he danced over into a dark corner where Wiske·djak could not see him and opened one of his eyes a little to peep out.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") There he saw Wiske·djak going among the dancers, wringing their necks, and he called out, “Wiske·djak is killing you\![28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Fly!”[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they opened their eyes and saw what was happening and took wing and flew away.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") But little Ciŋgəbis was way up in the corner.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") When the birds rushed for the door, Ciŋgəbis got there last.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Wiske·djak jumped at him and gave him a kick behind that knocked him out of shape.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he kicked him out of the door and cried, “Now go, you little rascal.”[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Ciŋgəbis flew off.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Ever since then he has been out of shape.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") His feet are so far back that he cannot walk on land.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Wiske·djak did not eat the ducks he had killed after all.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") He was a curious lad, that Wiske·djak.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") (I wasn’t with him any longer.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") I left him there.)[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") \[4\][42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") (4) Wiske·djak Anum Suum Urit and Originates Rock-weed and Red Willow from the Scabs.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Now Wiske·djak went on after he had kicked Ciŋgəbis.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw the flocks of birds rising in the sky and flying overhead for the south to where it is warmer.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") When he lost sight of them, he went back into his wigwam and looked over what birds he had killed.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") He wondered how he could cook them best, so they would taste good.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he made up his mind to build a big fire outside his wigwam.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got the fire well started, he got a stick and sharpened its point; then with this he loosened up the ground all around and under the fire.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") When the fire burned down, it left the sand red hot round about, and the holes too.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, where the holes were, he stuck the fowl head-first with their feathers all on just as he had killed them, leaving their feet sticking out above the ground.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he put on more fire to roast them well in the hot sand.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") He stayed up part of the night tending his fire, until he grew drowsy.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” said he, “I’ll take a little sleep while my birds are cooking in the sand.”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") But he grew uneasy lest somebody might come while he was sleeping and steal his birds.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") Now Wiske·djak had the power to make anything answer him when he spoke to it, no matter what it might be.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") So he decided to lie down in a clear space facing the lake where people would come in a canoe if any were around.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") He lay down ano suo lacui adverso, resting on his knees and elbows.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” declared he, “I’m going to have a little sleep.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") You watch and tell me when you see any Indians, if they should come in a canoe.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Wake me up if you see anybody.”[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went to sleep.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while anus ejus clamavit, saying that an Indian was coming.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") Wiske·djak jumped up and looked around everywhere, but could not see anybody.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") So he lay down again and ano suo idem dixit ut antea.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") But just as he was going to sleep, anus iterum clamavit, saying that a canoe was approaching from around the point.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") Wiske·djak jumped up again and looked all around, but he could not see any canoe.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") He then grew angry and anum suum vehementes objurgavit and warned it not to tell any more lies, as he wanted to go to sleep.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he lay down and fell asleep again.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") Now this time there were some Indians coming around the point in a canoe and they saw the smoke from Wiske·djak’s fire on the shore of the lake.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Seeing something strange-looking near the fire—they could not well make out what—they paddled near.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") As they drifted quietly in shore, looking sharp to see what curious creature it might be, they came quite close.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the Indians said, “Look out, it might be Wiske·djak up to some more of his mischief.”[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") So one of the men went ashore and said, “I’ll go see who it is and what he is doing.”[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he went up the shore to where Wiske·djak was crouching asleep and looked at him.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") He then found out who it was, Wiske·djak, and saw the fire burning, but couldn’t see anything cooking.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") But at last he examined the fire-place and saw the fowls’ legs sticking out of the sand around the fire.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") He stepped closer to the fire and saw that they were the legs of all kinds of ducks and geese.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he went down to the water and told the rest of the men what he had found.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") Said they, “We will all go up and take Wiske·djak’s ducks and geese out of the sand and play a trick on him.”[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") So they got out of the canoe and took their paddles.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") They dug up all the fowl with the paddles and twisted the legs off them.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") The legs they stuck back in the sand just as Wiske·djak had placed them.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") They then took the ducks and geese and started off as fast as possible before Wiske·djak should wake up and see them.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** 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