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It begins: Bluejay and his elder sister Ioí, with her five children, lived together in a house by the sea beach. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/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/) / Bluejay, the Imitator # Bluejay, the Imitator · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/) **2** Early the next morning Bluejay got up and made a fire, and went up on the roof of his house.[90](../../90/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while, he called out to his sister: “A canoe is coming,” and she answered: “It comes because you invited him.”[91](../../91/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon the Bear paddled up to the beach and landed, and came up to the house, and they all sat down.[92](../../92/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay began to heat the stones in the fire and to get ready for cooking.[93](../../93/ "tree and pragmatics") When the stones were hot he sharpened his knife and began to cut his feet, but, oh, it hurt him very much.[94](../../94/ "tree and pragmatics") It hurt him so much that he fainted away.[95](../../95/ "tree and pragmatics") They blew on him until he recovered.[96](../../96/ "tree and pragmatics") The Bear said: “You can do only one thing, Bluejay.”[97](../../97/ "tree and pragmatics") The Bear took his knife and slowly cut the soles off his feet.[98](../../98/ "tree and pragmatics") He cut a piece of flesh out of his thigh.[99](../../99/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he rubbed his hands over the wounds and immediately they were healed.[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he cut the flesh in small pieces and boiled it.[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had finished cooking and it was done, he threw it down before them, and went home to his house.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay’s feet were sore.[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") After a number of nights they were again hungry.[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay said to his sister: “Let us go visiting again.[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") To-morrow we will go and visit the Beaver.”[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") Early in the morning they started out, and before very long they reached the Beaver’s house.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver was on the roof of his house.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") He came down, and they went in and sat down.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") After a little while the Beaver went out and brought into the house a bundle of willow twigs, which he put down before them.[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he took a dish and went out and brought it back filled with mud.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay and his sister could not eat these things, and pretty soon they got ready to go home.[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") As they were about to start, his sister said to him: “You go down first to the beach, or else you will talk a great deal.”[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") The Bluejay said to his sister: “No, you go down first.”[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") So she went down first to the beach.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") When she had gone Bluejay said: “Come to my house to-morrow to fetch your dish,” and the Beaver answered: “I will come to-morrow.”[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") Early next morning Bluejay got up and made a fire, and went up on the roof of his house.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") After he had sat there for a while, he called out to his sister: “A canoe is coming.”[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") She answered: “It comes because you asked it to come.”[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver landed and came up the beach and entered the house, and they all sat down.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay went out of the house, and after he had been gone a little while he came back with a bunch of willow twigs, and he put them before the Beaver, who began to eat them, and soon ate them all up.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay ran down to the beach and got some mud, which he put before the Beaver.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver ate it all and went home.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") Not many days after this they were again hungry, and Bluejay said: “Let us go visiting again.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") To-morrow let us go to visit the Seal.”[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") Early the next morning they started, and at length they came to the house of the Seal.[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") The Seal had five children.[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") After they had been sitting a while in her house, the Seal said to her children: “Go to the beach and lie down there.”[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") They went down to the edge of the water and lay there.[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Seal took a stick and went down there, too, and when she reached her children she struck the youngest one on the head and it lay there.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") She said to the others: “Dive down,” and they did so, and when they came to the surface of the water there were five of them.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she dragged up to the house the one that she had killed and singed it, and when she had finished singeing it she cut it up.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") She boiled it, and when it was cooked she gave it to Bluejay and his sister.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") They ate, and presently they were satisfied.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") When they were getting ready to go home his sister said to her brother: “You go down first.”[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") He answered: “No, you go down first.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") You always want to stay where they give us food.”[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") So his sister went down to the beach.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay said to the Seal: “Come to-morrow and visit us, and fetch your kettle.”[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") The Seal said: “I shall come.”[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay and his sister went home to their house.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") Early next morning Bluejay got up and went on to the roof of his house.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while he called out to his sister: “A canoe is coming.”[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") She answered him: “It comes because you have asked them to come.”[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") The canoe came to the beach, and the Seal and her children landed and pulled the canoe up on the beach, and then came up to the house.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon Bluejay said to his sister’s children: “Go to the beach and lie down there.”[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") The children went and lay down at the edge of the water.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay took a stick and went down and struck the youngest one on the head.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he said to the other children: “Quick now, dive.”[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") They dived, but when they came up there were only four.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") Five times they dived, but the one that Bluejay had struck remained dead.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Ioí and her children cried for the dead one.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") The Seal said: “Bluejay only knows how to do one thing.”[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") She struck one of her daughters on the head with a stick, and said to the others: “Quick, dive.”[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") They dived, and when they came up again all five of them were there.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she singed her daughter, and when she had finished singeing her she cut her up and threw her down before Bluejay and his sister, saying: “You may eat this.”[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they tied up and buried the dead child, and the Seals went home.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") After a time these two were again hungry, and Blue jay said: “Let us go and visit the Shadows.”[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") His sister said: “We will go to-morrow.”[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") Early next morning they started, and at last they reached the home of the Shadows and went up to the house.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") It was full of food, and on the beds there were lying ornaments, clothing, coats, blankets of deer skin, of mountain-goat wool, and of ground-hog skin.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") Blue jay said to his sister: “Where are these people?”[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") His sister answered: “They are here, but you cannot see them.”[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") Blue jay took up one of the large ear ornaments.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") “Look out\![165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") You are pulling my ear, Bluejay!” cried a person.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay was surprised, for he saw no one, and he dropped the ear ornament.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they heard many people laughing.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") He took hold of a ground-hog blanket, and pulled at it.[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let go of my ground-hog blanket, Bluejay,” said a person, but he could see no one.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked under the bed for the one who had spoken, and again they heard people laughing.[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") He took up a coat made of goat wool, and somebody cried out, “Why do you lift my coat, Bluejay?”[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") He took hold of a nose ornament, and a person cried, “Let go of my nose ornament, Bluejay.”[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") Then a basket fell down from above.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") He lifted it up and put it back.[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he began to look under the bed and all through the house for persons, and again they heard many people laughing.[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") His sister said to him: “Stay here quietly.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") They are Shadows, and so you cannot see them.”[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") They ate some of the food.[179](../../179/ "tree and pragmatics") When it got dark Bluejay said, “We will sleep here.”[180](../../180/ "tree and pragmatics") So they slept there during the night, but all through the night they had bad dreams, for so the Shadows punished Bluejay, because he had teased them.[181](../../181/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay and his sister went home, and his sister said, “Now we have gone visiting enough.”[182](../../182/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/) - next →: [Bluejay Visits the Ghosts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/6/) - ↑ back to [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/)