Note 5 — Chapter I · MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF THE TIMISKAMING ALGONQUIN.

Now Nenebuc grew up and was alone. He was a man and began to travel. He knew all kinds of things concerning the trees, the world, and everything which his grandfather had taught him. He set out on his first journey and went toward the mountains. In one day’s walk he climbed over three great mountains, something that no man could do. When he reached the top of the first mountain he found a goose and killed it. In like manner he killed a goose on the tops of the second and third mountains. Then he went down to the lake below. He was very, very tired from his first day’s journey. He made a fire with his bow-drill5 and put his geese in the sand, which he had heated to bake them in. He buried them with their legs sticking out. He lay down by the fire and ano suo dixit to watch the geese while he slept, so that no one would steal them. Just as he was dozing off to sleep, anus ejus dixit, “Somebody’s coming for your geese!” and Nenebuc jumped up. Sed anus ejus eum deci piebat. It did this three or four times. At last Nenebuc grew angry. He took a club and anum suum percussit and told it not to do that again. Then he went to sleep. Some people came along and stole the geese, but left the legs sticking in the same place.