Note 3 — Chapter II · MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF THE TIMAGAMI OJIBWA.

The girl used to get water at the shore and stay there a long time. One day in March, she went to the water hole, broke the ice and looked into the water. In so doing, she made a mistake, for there was no cloud in the sky and the sun was shining brightly near the horizon, so that, early in the morning, she looked at the sun.3 She brought the water back in a birch bark pail and placed it inside the wigwam, but she could not sit down. “What is the matter?” said her father. “Why, I looked at the sun,” answered his daughter. “Well, good-bye, you’ve got to live with the sun now,” said her father. Then the girl and her parents shook hands and she went away to live with the sun, and is there yet. Before she went away she said to her father, “You will see your grandchildren before long.” Then she told him to put his wooden dish upside down before the fire and to leave it there four days and four nights and to look under it every morning. Then she went to live with the sun.