--- title: Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · full text with trees · page 2 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/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/) / Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 # Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/6/) **2** Pretty soon Wiske·djak did wake up, as he had slept enough.[85](../../85/ "tree and pragmatics") He got up and looked about.[86](../../86/ "tree and pragmatics") Nobody was around and things looked quiet.[87](../../87/ "tree and pragmatics") “I guess my food is pretty well cooked by this time,” said he.[88](../../88/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he pulled up one of the duck legs from the sand, and ate the meat on the shank.[89](../../89/ "tree and pragmatics") He went all around pulling the fowls’ legs out of the sand and eating them.[90](../../90/ "tree and pragmatics") “They are very well done to pull off so easily.[91](../../91/ "tree and pragmatics") Oh, they must be nice and tender!” thought he.[92](../../92/ "tree and pragmatics") The only thing he noticed was that the legs came very freely from the sand.[93](../../93/ "tree and pragmatics") “They must be very well cooked to come out of the sand so freely.”[94](../../94/ "tree and pragmatics") He took a digging stick and commenced to dig them out.[95](../../95/ "tree and pragmatics") He commenced shovelling away the sand where one of his ducks was, but found the hole empty, and he dug all around in the sand but found they were all taken away.[96](../../96/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not find one bird.[97](../../97/ "tree and pragmatics") At last he got tired of searching and then ano suo dixit, “So I thought I left you to watch for me while I was asleep!”[98](../../98/ "tree and pragmatics") Et anus \[5\]respondit, “When I was watching for you and woke you up, you were not satisfied.[99](../../99/ "tree and pragmatics") You gave me a scolding.[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") So when the Indians did come, I thought I would leave you to do your own watching.”[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Wiske·djak grew angry and planned anum suum castigare.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") He got wood and made another big fire.[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") He got it burning well until there were a lot of red coals.[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” ano suo dixit, “I’ll give you a little punishment for letting my ducks and geese go to the Indians.”[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") He went over to the fire and straddled his legs over the fire-place, sitting over the red coals.[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") Anum suum paulum urere incepit ut eum castigaret, but he stood the pain the fire gave him.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon his flesh commenced sizzling, making a sputtering noise “Tsii!” as it roasted nicely.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") He heard it squealing.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") “You can squeal all you like till you get enough of a scorching,” ano suo dixit Wiske·djak.[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") When he thought it was burnt enough, he got up and started walking off.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") He started off to look for something else to do, ano suo maxime dolente.[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") He wandered across swamps and mountains and around lakes, suffering with his burns.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") All at once he came upon a little flock of partridges newly hatched, and their mother was away.[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") “Kwe!” said Wiske·djak, “What are you doing here?”[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") “Nothing,” said the little Partridges, “just staying here.”[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where is your mother?” asked Wiske·djak.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") “Away hunting,” replied they.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") “What’s your name?” he asked of one.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") Each little Partridge told him its name until he came to the last, the youngest one.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") “What’s your name?” he demanded.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") “Kuckuŋge·′sįs, suddenly frightened!” answered the little Partridge.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh you!” said Wiske·djak, “what can you frighten?”[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he took a lump of soft mud and threw it over all the young Partridges, so that he almost covered them with the dirty mud.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") “What can you frighten now?” said he.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he left and walked along until he came to a high mountain.[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") He was getting very sore from his burns and anus \[6\]maxime doluit.[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") When he climbed to the top of the mountain he found a nice breeze blowing across it.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") He found a high rock swept by the cooling breeze.[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” thought he to himself, “if I can find a nice place on the highest of these rocks I can rest myself and let the cool breeze cool my burns.”[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") So he searched around the mountain until he came to a place clear of trees where there was a great chasm below, hundreds of feet deep, with a nice cool breeze coming over.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") Here he lay down right on the edge where most of the breeze was.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") He found the wind very good.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") He got relief from his suffering burns.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") His pains had been so bad and he had walked so far that he was very tired and sleepy.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he was fast asleep on the brink of the cliff.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") By this time the old Partridge had got home to his young and found them all covered with black mud.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") The old Partridge said to his young, “What has happened to you?[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") Where did you go?[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") Anywhere?”[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") “No,” they answered, “nowhere.”[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, what did this?” he asked.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, Wiske·djak came along to-day after you went away.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") He commenced asking us questions and we answered him as well as we could.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") He asked us our names and we all told him.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") But one, our youngest brother, was the last to be asked, and when he told his name Wiske·djak got angry and said, ‘What could you frighten?’[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he got mud and threw it over us and left us in this mess.”[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") So the old Partridge was angry.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") He cleaned the young ones up, washed and dried them, and gave them their food which he had brought back for them.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he asked them which way Wiske·djak went and they showed him the direction.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the old Partridge took the trail the little ones showed him and followed Wiske·djak across the swamps, over the mountains, and around the lakes.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") He tracked him to the big high mountains.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") He kept on until he reached the high rock of the cliff, and there he saw Wiske·djak lying on the edge of the rock sleeping soundly.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") The old Partridge went alongside of him on the upper side of the rock, above him.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") He spread his wings and went right up close to Wiske·djak’s ears, and shouted, screeched, and clapped his wings.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") Wiske·djak woke up with a start and jumped up.[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw something above him making a terrible noise and took such a fright that he fell over the edge of the rock.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” said the old Partridge, “you will know better what Kuckuŋge·′sįs is now.”[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") So poor Wiske·djak tumbled down the cliff, banging and sliding on his hind-quarters, and scraped all the scabs off his burns.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") When he fell to the bottom of the rocky cliff, he lay stunned for some time, but after a while he arose.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") He started to crawl away on his hands and knees.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he saw a lake at the bottom of the cliff.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") His sores pained him very badly.[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") Thought he to himself, “There’s a nice lake; now I’ll go down there and cool myself in the water.”[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") He started crawling toward the shore.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") Before he came to the edge of the water there were a lot of low willows he had to crawl through.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") As he went over them, he looked back where he had come and saw all his blood from the sores stuck on to the willow twigs.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") Then said he, “Now you young willows will be called ‘red willows’ from this time on.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") And when the Indians get short of tobacco they will cut you and scrape the bark off you and dry you and use you to smoke for their tobacco.”[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked up higher toward the rocks where he fell down.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") There he saw his scabs sticking to the rocks where he had stuck, some large, some small.[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Said he to the rocks, “You will hold on to these scabs.[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") Don’t ever let go.[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") And when the Indians are hard put to it for something to eat, you will give them some of my scabs and tell them to wash them in cold water and boil them with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") It will furnish them with fine soup, those small ones.[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") And now the biggest scabs—you can tell them that if they have any kind of oil they can oil them a little and roast them before the fire and that it will give them good nourishment when they are hard put to it for something to eat.”[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") So from that time the Indians have used red willow bark to smoke and the “rock weed” to eat when they have needed them.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") \[7\] By this time anus Wiske·djaki magnopere doluit and he thought he would go into the water for a while and cool his burns.[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/6/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/6/) - next →: [Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/7/) - ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/)