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He now began to think how he should escape. Looking about him, he saw his war-club in his canoe, and with it he immediately struck the heart of the fish. Then he felt as though the fish was moving with great velocity. The king-fish observed to his friends "I feel very unwell for having swallowed that nasty fellow Manabozho." At that moment he received another more severe blow on the heart.
Again the King of the Fishes came to him, asking the cause of his sadness. Benito replied, "The Princess lost her ring while we were crossing the sea, and I have been sent to find it." The King-Fish summoned all the fishes to come to him. When they had assembled, he noticed that one was missing. He commanded the others to search for this one, and bring it to him.
Just then the bait was let down again near to the king, and Manabozho was heard crying out "Me-she-nah-ma-gwai, take hold of my hook." The king-fish did so, and allowed himself to be dragged to the surface, which he had no sooner reached than he swallowed Manabozho and his canoe at one gulp. When Manabozho came to himself he found he was in his canoe in the fish's stomach.
"I am not a past master in the art of ordering banquets," he said cheerily, turning at once to draw her attention to the table, "but the head-waiter here is a gourmet. He suggested caviare, a white soup, a king-fish, a tourne-dos, and a grouse does that appeal?" "You take my breath away," she said, with valorous effort to seem at ease. "Now as to wine?" "I seldom touch wine."
The king was enchanted; for these mere specimens, as they were deemed, must, if genuine, be worth in themselves a mint of money; and a province full of such why, the thought was charming! Thus the great King-fish was fairly hooked, and Riza Bey could take his time. The golden tide that flowed in to him did not slacken, and his own expenses were all provided for at the Tuileries.
They found it under a stone, and it said, "I am so full! I have eaten so much that I cannot swim." So the larger ones took it by the tail and dragged it to their King. "Why did you not come when summoned?" asked the King-Fish. "I was so full I could not swim," replied the Fish. The King-Fish, suspecting that it had swallowed the ring, ordered it to be cut in two.
When he took the manuscript from my hand, I saw the shining something distinctly on the top of his head; and when he sat back to read, he was a perfect copy of a dry old king-fish, looking through a pair of staring, glaring, green eyes.
"Why did you take hold of my hook? Esa, esa! shame, shame! you ugly fish." The trout, being thus rebuked, let go. Manabozho let down his line again into the water, saying "King-fish, take hold of my line." "What a trouble Manabozho is!" cried the king-fish. "Sun-fish, take hold of his line." The sun-fish did as he was bid, and Manabozho drew him up, crying as he did so
He kept repeating these words some time; at last the king-fish said "What a trouble Manabozho is! Here, trout, take hold of his line." The trout did as he was bid, and Manabozho drew up his line, the trout's weight being so great that the canoe was nearly overturned. Till he saw the trout Manabozho kept crying out "Wha-ee-he! wha-ee-he!" As soon as he saw him he said
Manabozho thought, "If I am thrown up in the middle of the lake I shall be drowned, so I must prevent it." So he drew his canoe and placed it across the fish's throat, and just as he had finished doing this the king-fish tried to cast him out. Manabozho now found that he had a companion with him. This was a squirrel that had been in his canoe.
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