--- title: A Bluejay Story — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · full text with trees · page 2 description: A Bluejay Story, «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: At Sea Side lived many people—a big village. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/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/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / A Bluejay Story # A Bluejay Story · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/) **2** After a little time the boy went up to the beach, feeling very sad, and trying to think what he should do.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") At last he went into the house and took his arrows and started walking along the shore.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") He walked around a point, and saw a black eagle, and shot it.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") He skinned it and tried to put the skin on his body, but it was too small.[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") It did not reach down as far as his knees.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") He took it off and left it there and went on.[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while he saw another eagle, and he shot it, and it fell down.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") Its head was partly white.[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") He skinned it and put the skin on his body, but it was too small.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") It reached down only a little below his knees.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he took it off and left it lying there, and went on a long way.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") At last he saw a bald-headed eagle.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") He shot it, and it fell down.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he skinned it and put the skin on himself.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") Even this was too small, but it nearly fitted him.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he tried to fly.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") At first he could only fly downward.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not rise in the air.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") He tried again, and this time he found that he could turn, so he kept on trying, and pretty soon he could fly well.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") Now he flew towards the village, and when he had come near to this point he smelled smoke, and in that smoke he smelled fat cooking.[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") So before he got to the village he turned and flew out to sea, following the smell of the smoke.[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon he came to the rock of the sea-lions, and there he saw the men of his village.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") He alit on a tree far off and watched them, looking down on them below.[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw that they were cooking, and when the meat was done he saw them eating.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had nearly finished eating, he flew towards them, and he thought, “I wish Bluejay would see me.”[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay did see the bird flying, and he said, “Ha! a bird is coming to get food from us.”[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy flew around them once, and then again.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") Five times he circled around them, all the time coming lower.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay took a piece of meat and threw it out, and said to the bird, “I give you this to eat; take it.”[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird came down, and, grasping the piece of meat, flew away.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay said, “Why, that bird has feet just like a person!”[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") When Bluejay and the people had finished eating they went to sleep.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") Again the Raven hid a piece of meat.[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") Towards evening Bluejay awoke, and then the people ate again, and afterwards Bluejay burned what they had left.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they gathered mussels and started to go home.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") When they were close to the houses Bluejay called out, “Ah, Stikuá, get your mussels.”[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") All the women ran down to the beach with a noise of feet, and carried up the mussels.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") When the boy got home he at once lay down.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") That evening the people tried to wake him, but he did not rise.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning, as soon as it became day, early, they began to get ready, and again they hauled their canoes into the water.[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") The Chief’s son still lay in bed.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not try to go with them, and they started off.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while the sun rose.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the boy got up.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") He called together all the women and children and said to them: “Quick, wash yourselves.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") Hurry; don’t be lazy.”[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") They all washed themselves.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he said, “Quick, comb your hair.”[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") They did so.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he put down a plank on the ground and took a piece of meat from under his blanket, and said to them, “All your husbands eat a great deal of this meat every day.”[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") He put two pieces of the meat side by side on the plank.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he cut off a piece of the meat and greased the heads of all the women and the children.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he pulled out of the ground the wall planks of the houses and sharpened them.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") If a wall plank was wide, he split it.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") He sharpened all of them.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") The Raven’s house was the last house in the village.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not pull down its planks.[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") He fastened the planks on the backs of the women, and said to the women, “Now go to the beach and swim towards the sea, and as you go, swim five times around that rock and then go out to sea.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") After this you shall be killer whales.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") When you find sea-lions you shall always kill them, but do not give any of them to stingy people.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") When you kill a good whale you shall eat it, but do not give any of it to stingy people.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") I shall take these children with me.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") They shall live on the sea and be my relations.”[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he began to split sinews; he split a great many of them.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") He threw down the sinews that he had split on the stones where the people used to gather their mussels, and said to the mussels, “After this when Bluejay and these others go to take up you mussels, you shall always be tied fast to the rocks.”[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Now the women went down to the water’s edge and swam about, and began slowly to jump out of the water.[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") Five times they swam backward and forward before the village; then they went seaward, swimming very fast.[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") They kept on to the island where Bluejay and his fellows were cooking their food.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay said to the men, “What is this that is coming?”[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") The men looked at the things that were coming, and saw the women often jumping out of the water.[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") Five times they swam around that rock, then they went out to sea.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while birds came flying after them towards the sea—birds with red bills, just as if blood were on their beaks.[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") They kept following one another, many of them.[179](../../179/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay said: “Do you see these birds, how they keep coming?[180](../../180/ "tree and pragmatics") Where do they come from?”[181](../../181/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Raven said, “How is it that you do not recognize these as your children?”[182](../../182/ "tree and pragmatics") Five times the birds flew around the rock, just as the women had gone around it, and then they flew away out to sea.[183](../../183/ "tree and pragmatics") When Bluejay and his people were eating the meat that they had killed, that hunter said: “Quick, let us go home.[184](../../184/ "tree and pragmatics") I am afraid that we have seen bad spirits.[185](../../185/ "tree and pragmatics") We never before saw anything like this at this rock.”[186](../../186/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they gathered some mussels, and put in the canoes the meat that was left and carried it with them.[187](../../187/ "tree and pragmatics") Just at evening they came to the village, and Bluejay called out, “Ah, Stikuá, come and get your mussels.”[188](../../188/ "tree and pragmatics") There was no noise of people running.[189](../../189/ "tree and pragmatics") Five times he called to her, but no one came.[190](../../190/ "tree and pragmatics") It was all still.[191](../../191/ "tree and pragmatics") They went up on the beach, and then they saw that no one was there, and that the walls of the houses had disappeared.[192](../../192/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they began to cry, and Bluejay cried too.[193](../../193/ "tree and pragmatics") Some one said to him, “Be quiet, Bluejay; if you had not been bad, our Chief would not have done this to us.”[194](../../194/ "tree and pragmatics") Now they made only one house for all; all lived together.[195](../../195/ "tree and pragmatics") Only the Raven, who had been kind-hearted, had a house to himself.[196](../../196/ "tree and pragmatics") He often went along the beach looking for food, and was lucky, for sometimes he found a sturgeon; or again he went along the beach looking for food and he found a porpoise.[197](../../197/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay often went along the beach trying to find food, but he was always unlucky, for he found nothing, and often, while he was looking, suddenly it would begin to hail—big hailstones.[198](../../198/ "tree and pragmatics") Often he went out to gather mussels and tried to break them off from the rocks, but he could not do it.[199](../../199/ "tree and pragmatics") They were stuck fast to the stones.[200](../../200/ "tree and pragmatics") So he gave up and went home.[201](../../201/ "tree and pragmatics") He cried a great deal.[202](../../202/ "tree and pragmatics") Often the Raven looked for food along the beach and found a seal.[203](../../203/ "tree and pragmatics") The others had nothing to eat except roots.[204](../../204/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus these men who had not brought food to their families had now lost their women and children, their houses had been pulled down and taken away, and they had nothing to eat.[205](../../205/ "tree and pragmatics") So their Chief punished them for being stingy.[206](../../206/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/) - next →: [Bluejay, the Imitator](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/) - ↑ back to [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/)