Then the water grew so shoal that she heard the song of the Clams as they lay under the sand, singing to her that she should throw him off and drown him. For these Clams were his deadly enemies. But Bootup the Whale did not understand their language, so she asked her rider—for he knew Clam—what they were chanting to her. And he replied in a song:—
"They tell you to hurry (cussal) (M),
To hurry, to hurry him along,
Over the water,
Away as fast as you can!"
Then the Whale went like lightning, and suddenly found herself high on the shore. Then she lamented and sang:—
"Alas, my grandchild (noojeech),
Ah, you have been my death;
I can never leave the land,
I shall swim in the sea no more."
But Glooskap sang:—
"Have no fear, noogumee,
You shall not suffer,
You shall swim in the sea once more."
[Illustration: GLOOSKAP LOOKING AT THE WHALE SMOKING HIS PIPE]
Then with a push of his bow against her head he sent her off into deep water. And the Whale rejoiced greatly. But ere she went she said, "Oh, my grandson, K'teen pehabskwass n'aga tomawe?" (P.). "Hast thou not such a thing as an old pipe and some tobacco?" He replied,—
"Ah yes.
You want tobacco,
I behold you."
So he gave her a short pipe and some tobacco, and thereunto a light. And the Whale, being of good cheer, sailed away, smoking as she went, while Glooskap, standing silent on the shore, and ever leaning on his maple bow, beheld the long low cloud which followed her until she vanished in the far away.