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"So all began, with Kaluskap drumming in the middle, singing: "'New songs from the south, brothers, Close your eyes tightly, brothers, Dance and learn a new song. "As they danced around, he picked out the fattest, and, reaching out one hand, seized them and twisted their necks, shouting out, 'More war-cries, more poise! that's it; now you are learning!
"Thus it came about that all the woods and waters sent their folk to the dance. "Then Kaluskap took his song-drum and said: 'When I drum and sing you must dance in a circle the same way as the sun, close your eyes tightly, and each one shout his war whoop, as I cry "new songs"!
But the diver ran for the water and, just as he reached the edge, Kaluskap gave him a kick behind that sent him half a mile, but it knocked off all his tail feathers and twisted his shape so that ever since his legs have stuck out where his tail was, and he cannot rise from the land or the ice. I know it is so, for my father, Cos Cob, told me it was true, and we ourselves have seen it.
It is ever so. To go against Kaluskap brings much evil to brood over." A few nights later, as they sat by their fire in the cabin, a curious squeaking was heard behind the logs. They had often heard it before, but never so much as now. Skookum turned his head on one side, set his ears at forward cock. Presently, from a hole 'twixt logs and chimney, there appeared a small, white breasted mouse.
Why should the Indian want to have her surrounded by pine boughs? why cedar-smoke? and why that queer song? Yes, there it was again. Rolf went out to see and hear. Softly summing on a tin pan, with a mudded stick, the Indian sang a song. The words which Rolf learned in the after-time were: "Come, Kaluskap, drive the witches; Those who came to harm the dear one."
Kaluskap felt lazy. He wanted to eat, but did not wish to hunt, so he called the bluejay and said: 'Tell all the woods that to-morrow night Kaluskap gives a new dance and teaches a new song, and he told the hoot owl to do the same, so one kept it up all day 'Kaluskap teaches a new dance to-morrow night, and the other kept it up all night: 'Kaluskap teaches a new song at next council.
"At length Shingebis the diver began to have his doubts and he cautiously opened one eye, saw the trick, and shouted: 'Fly, brothers, fly! Kaluskap is killing us! "Then all was confusion. Every one tried to escape, and Kaluskap, in revenge, tried to kill the Shingebis.
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