Tcûskai was always full of tricks. He taught his son to kill his cousin; and that is why people of kin sometimes kill one another now. [[310]]
GÄK KILLS PAKOL
CHARACTERS
| Gäk | Crow | Ndukis | Hawk | |
| Kiúks | An Indian Doctor | Pakol | Deer | |
| Kumal | Pelican | Wíle | A Fawn | |
| Moi | Squirrel | Wus | Fox |
Gäk was an old man and he was a doctor; his wife was young.
Off in the mountains there was a platform of rocks. Gäk lay on the platform; he was sick. His medicines were the earth and the wind, and he sang to them all the time, trying to get well.
One morning Gäk told his wife (Wíle) that he was going to die, and asked her to call to her mother and father and aunts and uncles and cousins, and tell them to come and see him for the last time.
Wíle stood on the rocks and called: “My mother, my father, my aunts and uncles and cousins, come and see Gäk; he is going to die.”
Her father was away on the mountain, but he heard her and said: “That sounds like my child’s voice.”