Gäk scolded, and said: “You must do as I tell you. If you open your eyes when you jump, you will get killed.”
Wus tried again, then he said: “Oh, my brother, throw me a piece of meat.”
Gäk said: “If you want to eat, you must come down here.”
“Well, this time I will come!”
Wus jumped, but he caught on the bushes, and climbed back.
Gäk said: “It is getting dark. If you don’t come, you will have nothing to eat.”
“I will come this time.”
Wus went over the rock like a feather, but when he was half-way down, he opened his eyes; then he fell and was torn [[312]]to pieces. His head, alive and with open eyes, was far away from the body.
Gäk felt badly; he and Wus had always been good friends. He said to the head: “Wus, I thought you were the strongest person in the world; now you are torn to pieces. You didn’t do as I told you to; you opened your eyes.”
Gäk talked to his medicines, the earth and the wind, then he got his red medicine basket,[1] picked up the pieces of Wus, joined them together and stepped over the body three times. He covered the body with the basket and told Wus to lie still, that the basket would cure him, but he mustn’t get up till he came and took it off. Gäk went back to eating.