akepiw | akepiw |
(1)kîtahtawê êsa nênapos pimohtêw. wâpamêw niskah. wîh-ohpahoyiwa. |
(1)Once upon a time, the story goes, Nenapus was walking along. He saw some geese. They started to fly up. |
(2)«cêskwah, nisîmitik!» |
(2)«Wait, Little Brothers!» |
(3)nakiyiwa. otihtêw. |
(3)They stopped. He went up to them. |
(4)«ayiwâk kitakâwâtamâtinâwâw ôma kâ-kîwêhâyêk! nama wiya cî kâh-pihkwâwâcihinâwâw?» |
(4)«I very much envy you the way you fly about! Could you not manage to take me with you?» |
(5)«êyiwêhk mâka kakwê-pihkwâwâcihitinân,» itik êsa. |
(5)«Well, we shall at any rate try to take you along,» they must have told him. |
(6)«pâh-pêyak kimîkwaninawa miyâtân kistêsinaw.» |
(6)«Let us each give one of our feathers to our elder brother.» |
(7)tâpwê mâ-miyik. |
(7)So each gave him one. |
(8)kâh-mâ-miyikot, «mahtih koc-ohpahoh.» |
(8)When they had given them to him, «See if you can rise from the ground.» |
(9)tâpwê ohpahôw; kaskihtâw. |
(9)Really, he rose from the ground; he was able to do it. |
(10)«mahti kito; kitoh!» |
(10)«Try see if you can quack; quack!» |
(11)niskak êtwêcik, êkosih itwêw. ohpahôwak, êh-kîwâhâcik. |
(11)The noise the geese make, that noise made he. They rose from the ground and flew. |
(12)«nistêsê,» itik, «âyiman ôtênawa kâ-wîh-otihtamihk. êkâ wiya capasis itâpih, awêkâ wîmâhâyahk.» |
(12)«Big Brother,» they told him, «there is some difficulty when we reach camps. Do not look down; or else we can fly a detour round them.» |
(13)«êyâ, nisîm kiyâm mêkwâhahtân, ta-wâpamikawiyân,» itwêw. |
(13)«Oh, Little Brother, do let us fly over them, so I may be seen,» he said. |
(14)tâpwê mêkwâhamwak ôtênaw. pimi-kitôw. miyâskamwak. âsay mîna kotak ôtênaw mîna êh-pimi-miyâskahkik, itâpiw, ôtênâhk pinika nêma ê-sâkôwâtiht. wayawîtim ôtênahk pahkisin. moskîstâk awâsisah. |
(14)So they flew right over a camp. They passed it safely. But as they were flying past over another camp, he looked down, for they were whooping up at him from the camp down there. Just outside the camp he fell to the ground. The children ran at him. |
(15)«wîsahkêcâhk!» itik. |
(15)«Wisahketchahk!» they cried at him. |
(16)omîkwanah kahkiyaw manipitimâwa. mamâhcikwâhpitâw. êkwah wâh-wayawîstamâsohkih itohtâniwiw. |
(16)All his feathers were plucked. He was tied down fast. Then, when people had to go out for calls of nature, they all went there. |
(17)êkwah nôtokêwa êk êh-wâpiyit, ê-saskahohtêyit, «tântê wîsahkêcâhk êh-ayât, kâ-mâh-mîcitiht?» |
(17)Then an old woman who was blind and walked with a cane, «Where is Wisahketchahk, who is being cacked upon?» |
(18)«ôtê, nôhkô,» itêw. |
(18)«Here, Grandmother,» he called to her. |
(19)itohtêw. |
(19)She went there. |
(20)«nôhkô,» itêw; «pitah nitâpihkonikawin pitah, wâ-mîcitikawiyâni,» itêw êk êh-wâpiyit. |
(20)«Grandmother,» he said to her, «I am always first untied, when people come to defecate on me,» he said to the blind old woman. |
(21)otihtêw nôtokêw; âpihkonêw. mêst osaskahohtân tahkonam. |
(21)The old woman went where he was; she untied him. She was holding her cane. |
(22)«nôhko, pêtâh kisaskahohtân.» |
(22)«Grandmother, give me your cane.» |
(23)miyik. âpihkonêw. mistik otêh oci cîstahwêw mistik wîsahkêcâhk. itêh êh-itâmot kiskahikêw. |
(23)She gave it to him. She untied him. Wisahketchahk jabbed her here with the cane. As she ran off, he pointed with the stick. |
(24)«awên âwa, wîst awa wâh-pêh-mîcisit!» itêw nôtokêwa. |
(24)«So much for her who wanted to come here and, like the others, defecate on me!» he called to the old woman. |
(25)tapasîw. |
(25)He ran away from there. |
(26)êkosi êyakô. |
(26)That is the end of this. |