--- title: XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Wyandot) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/53/) [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/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting… # XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 54 sentences and 690 words. 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(Wyandot)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") A little papoose was found alone in the woods by a squaw.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") A blind bear had killed the child’s father, and a huge rabbit had carried off his mother.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The little papoose was taken to the home of his mother’s sister.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") She named him Tchakobeech.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") He never grew larger than a papoose, but he was as wise as an old chief.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") After many moons he made snares or traps and caught the blind bear and the big rabbit, but he never saw his mother again.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech said: “I will go to the Happy Hunting Grounds and find my father and my mother.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") I will climb to the sky and break it open.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech left the wigwam one morning and climbed to the top of the tallest pine tree on the highest hill that he could find.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") No one saw him.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Each time he was near the top of the pine he blew his breath on the tree, and it grew twice as tall as it was at first.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He did this many times, and at last he touched the blue sky.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") He put his head through this blue wigwam and stepped from the tree into the Happy Hunting Grounds.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech liked this new country very much, but he could not see any people.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") He was lonesome, so he went back down the tree to the ground.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") He had left a sister in his aunt’s wigwam.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") She was always ready to run races and to play with him.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") He told his sister of the beautiful place behind the sky, and she was ready to go back with him.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The tree did not fall, and Tchakobeech made his sister climb up first, for then he could help her if her foot slipped.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He had made little wigwams on the big branches when he came down, and they slept in these when the dark came.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") They had four sleeps before the sky was reached.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech made another hole in the sky, and after his sister had gone through it he broke off the top of the tree and went through it himself.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Nobody could follow them, for now the tree was too short.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The two were very happy together and played all day in the green fields.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech made two wigwams and picked many flowers for their resting places.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") He set his traps to see if he could catch any animals.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") His sister told him there was nothing to catch in such a beautiful country.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech heard a noise in the middle of the night and went to his traps to see what was the matter.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") They were all on fire, but did not seem to burn.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") He called to his sister to come and help him.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The little trapper said: “Sister, tell me what I shall do.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") I have caught a great fire in my traps.”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") The girl trembled like a leaf on a tree.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") She said: “I know what is the matter.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") You have caught the sun. Let him go.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not see in the dark, and his feet are caught.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") He cannot get away.”[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") The little papoose man could see that she told the truth.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") He was so small that the sun burned his hands and made him blind when he tried to let it out.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech said: “I have made trouble for all the tribes on the ground.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") I am not wise any more.”[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Just then a little mouse jumped out of a stump.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") It had been with its brothers to eat the moon.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The papoose caught the mouse and breathed on it until it grew as big as a bear.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Its teeth were very long.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") He drove it up to the traps, and it bit the leather strings.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") The sun jumped out of the snares and went away.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") He had been gone a whole day.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") All the tribes remember when the sun did not shine, and there was no morning between two sleeps.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") It was many moons ago.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Tchakobeech did not put his snares in that place two times.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") The sun found another place to sleep and was never caught again.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Schoolcraft.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XXVII. the Star That Never Moves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/52/) - next →: [XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/54/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)