[1] The edge or rim; meaning the end of the story. [↑]
WUS KUMUSH AND TSMUK
CHARACTERS
| Kaiutois | Wolf | Wus Kumush | ||
| Nátcaktcókaskĭt | Wuswelékgăs | Wus’ Old Woman | ||
| Tsmuk | Darkness |
Old man Tsmuk and his wife had three sons and one daughter. The daughter was always thinking about Wus and singing about him.
Wus heard her, but he didn’t know how to get to her, for everywhere around Tsmuk’s place it was dark. He tried in all directions, but couldn’t get there. He listened to the girl’s song. At last he thought: “I can do anything I want to; I am Wus. I will make a place where that girl will come, and I can see her.” He burned over ground and made it ready for ges.[1] Then he thought of ges, and it grew there right away.
One day, when the three sons of old man Tsmuk were starting off to hunt deer, they asked their sister: “What will you eat while we are gone?”
“I have nothing to eat,” said the girl.
“Not far from here,” said the brothers, “there is ges growing; you can dig that.” And they told her where the place was.