“Kluk-a-luk.
Muk-a-luk.
puk-a-luk.
Freeze up hard,
Or you must run dry.”
He said these words over three times aloud. At that moment the water of the river began to freeze. It was the month called “Naz-ze-rak-sek” by the Eskimos, which means October.
At last the river froze so hard and solid, that the bird’s wing was frozen fast into the ice and he could not pull it out. Then the husband killed the wicked bird, and plucking one of the long feathers from its wing for a charm, took his wife safely home without any further trouble.
They brought the old grandmother and the little girl to live with them, and they were all happy the whole winter long with the meat of the big bird for food.
THE TREACHEROUS CROW AND HIS COUSIN, THE MINK
Long ago, a crow and a mink lived together. The crow called the mink his cousin. They made a little cabin where there was a sand bar and willows. In summer time when the weather was fine they played together on the sand bar, which was bigger than any sand pile any children ever had.
One day they saw some dead salmon on the beach, and the tracks of a brown bear.
The crow said to the mink, his cousin, “What shall we do if that brown bear comes around here?”
The mink answered, “We cannot catch that bear. He is bigger and stronger than we are. He will kill us.”