--- title: The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Told by John York. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/28/) [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/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Da… # The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter. The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 102 sentences and 1535 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. Told by John York.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") (A most curious blending of the old and the new.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") G. E. L.)[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") A good many years ago there were two brothers living in a camp away back in the woods where nobody else was to be seen.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Their father and mother had died when they were little boys.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The elder hunted all the time and got a lot of deer and other kinds of game.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The younger was busy in looking after the venison, cutting it up and drying it.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got it all dried he pounded it up very fine, same as corn meal, and put it away in bags for to use in the winter.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") One time the younger tried to think of something that he ever did before.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He thought there must be some people some place nearby.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He thought, “this evening when my brother comes home I’ll ask him about this.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") His brother came home at night and after supper the younger began to ask him if there were any Indians living nearby.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well,” the older boy said to his brother, “yes, there are some people living to the west who are called ‘white men,’ and some people living east of us, but it is a long way.”[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The younger boy began to get lonesome thinking about these people whom he would like to see, so one day he asked his brother if he would let him go and see some of the white people.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well,” his brother said, “it will take you four days to get there; you go straight west all the time.”[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, I will go to-morrow and I will try and get back in a week,” the younger said.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") He got ready the night before he started the journey.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") He left camp just about daylight and walked all day.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") When night came he made camp for the night.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The next day he started early in the morning, the same as he did the first day.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") On the fourth day while walking he noticed somebody had been cutting some trees with a very sharp thing.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked at the stumps for a long time.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") He never saw an axe before.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") He went on a little farther.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") He heard some one cutting something.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") He went on till he saw a man who was very white.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") He thought, “this must be a white man.”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") He got to where this man was working and sat down close by.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") They began to speak to each other.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") The white man asked him where did he come from.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian told him where he came from and said, “I just came to see the people and I am going to camp near the city.”[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The white man said, “I have got a little shanty here in the bush and if you like to stay in it you are welcome.”[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian said, “I don’t know what you call a shanty till I see it.”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") The white man said, “I will show you the shanty.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") You come along,” and they both went up to where the shanty was.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") The white man showed the Indian all the “rigging,” such as dishes and pans, the like of which the Indian never saw before.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") The white man gave him some meat, bread, tea, and sugar, things this Indian never ate before.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian would like to go to town one day and see the place.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") He went out and looked around.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") He picked up some rags and made a very nice quilt.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") He sold this quilt for $25.00.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") He made a lot of them and sold them all at $25.00 each.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") One day a nice-looking, young man came up to see him and told him that there was going to be a big feast on Wednesday at the big hall up town.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") He went down to it with this young man.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The feast was a French one.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") The King wanted to find a good cook, and every time the King had a feast there was a different cook.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") When the hour came to eat they all sat down and the King came out and also sat down and started to eat.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He just tasted and went away.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") This will show that he didn’t like it.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") The cooks were all men.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") This King wanted to find a good cook for his only daughter.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") When the feast was over the King came out again and said to all the people, “Who will try again for next week’s feast?”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Some of the boys knew that the Indian boy was a good cook, and one of them went over to the Indian boy and asked him if he would try.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, the Indian boy was a little shy at first, but he thought he would try.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") He went to his little shanty and thought about it all the time, and how he would make things look nice.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") The feast day came and he went over to the place and started in to cook.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got ready about four o’clock in the evening he got some girls to help him with the tables.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") About six o’clock he called the people to “come in.”[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") All the boys and girls said to one another “This Indian man is going to get his for sure.”[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") The waiter called to the King that everything was ready.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") The King came in and saw everything was good.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") He started to eat and he ate a lot this time.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") He told the people that he had found a good cook at last.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") He called his daughter to come out; this girl was never seen, only from a distance.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") She came out and stood by her father.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") The King called the Indian young man to come to where they were.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian came up and the King called a preacher and had the young couple married right there, and they stayed there at the King’s house.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the people had an excursion out on the lake.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") There were about five hundred people on board.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") They went a long ways out on the lake.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian’s wife did not like to go on this excursion so she did not go, but the Indian went, although his wife did not like him to go, but he wanted to go badly.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the boys thought that this would be a good chance to kill the Indian, so three boys got together and made a plan to throw the Indian overboard.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") They got him to go to the back end of the steamboat and then grabbed him by the legs.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Down he went into the water.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") Nobody saw him, only the boys that thrust him down.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") He swam around for a long time and then began to think about his wife and his brother.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not see land any place.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") He heard some bird up in the air and on looking up he saw a hawk.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") He began to call the bird and the bird came down to him.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") He asked the bird if there was an island close by, and the bird said, “Yes, there is a rock not far from here.”[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian said, “I’d like to ask you if you could take me to the rock.”[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will try,” said the bird.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") “Take hold of my legs and I will take you to the rock.”[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird got so big that it had no trouble in taking the Indian to the rock.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got there the Indian sat on the rock not knowing where to eat.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, he thought he would get the bird to go to the city and get him something to eat.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") So he called the bird and the bird came near.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") He told the bird to go to a big house with a big verandah.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird flew away and she was away for two hours, then she came back with a nice little parcel of nice cakes which the Indian’s wife had given to the bird.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian had a good lunch.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") The wife did not know where he was.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") There was a big reward to anybody that had seen him or had seen him killed.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") The big bird came to the rock, where the Indian was, in the evening, and said to him, “Maybe I could take you home if you pay me what I want.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") I would like to get the first baby you see when you get home.”[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") (While the Indian was away there was a baby born at home.)[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well,” the Indian said, “I will do that.”[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") They started to cross the big lake to get home.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") They got close to shore when the bird got tired and had to come down in the water about a hundred yards from shore.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") Anyway the Indian swam to shore and went home.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got there he saw a little baby boy, for his wife had a child born.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, he thought he had to give it to the bird, which he did, and his wife was glad that he went and gave up the boy to the big bird.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 29.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The People Who Became Serpents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/27/) - next →: [John York’s Own Story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)