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Updated: June 4, 2025
"The war-eagle will come, and then I shall have a chance to get his skin and his feathers to put on my head." Very soon he heard a noise in the air, but he could see nothing. At length a large eagle dropped, as if from the sky, on to the otter's carcass. Pauppukkeewis drew his bow and sent an arrow through the bird's body.
After wandering a long time, he came to the lodge of Manabozho, who was absent. Pauppukkeewis thought he would play him a trick, so he turned everything in the lodge upside down and killed his chickens. Now Manabozho calls all the fowl of the air his chickens, and among the number was a raven, the meanest of birds, and him Pauppukkeewis killed and hung up by the neck to insult Manabozho.
Then he shot a third arrow, crying "You, who are lying down, rise up, or you will be hit," and the bones immediately came together, flesh came over them, and the warriors, whose remains they were, stood before Pauppukkeewis alive and well. He led them to the chief of the village, who had been his friend, and gave them up to him. Soon after, the chief with his counsellors came to him, saying
Again and again Manabozho's hand was put out to catch him, but he dodged him at every turn, and at last, making a great dust, he dashed into a hollow tree, which had been blown down, and, changing himself into a snake, crept out at its roots. Pauppukkeewis again took human shape, and again Manabozho, pursuing him, pressed him hard.
"Yes," answered the chief, "lie down;" and Pauppukkeewis soon found himself changed into one of them. "You must make me large," said he, "larger than any of you." "Yes, yes," said they; "by and by, when we get into the lodge, it shall be done." They all dived into the lake, and Pauppukkeewis, passing large heaps of limbs of trees and logs at the bottom, asked the use of them. The beavers answered
At length a wary bird called out "Pauppukkeewis is killing us: go and tell our father." Away flew some of them, and Manabozho soon made his appearance on the plain below. Pauppukkeewis slipped down the other side of the mountain. Manabozho cried from the top "The earth is not so large but I can get up to you." Off Pauppukkeewis ran and Manabozho after him.
Pauppukkeewis pursued him for sport. Sometimes he was before him, sometimes over his head. Now he would give him a kick, now a push, now a trip, till the manito was quite exhausted. Meanwhile Pauppukkeewis's friend and the warriors came up, crying "Ha, ha, a! Ha, ha, a! Pauppukkeewis is driving him before him."
Manabozho was so close upon him at this place that he had almost caught him, but the foundation of the rock cried out "Haye! Ne-me-sho! Pauppukkeewis has spoiled me. Will you not restore me to life?" "Yes," replied Manabozho, and he restored the rock to its previous shape.
"Very well," replied the brant, and he soon found himself one of them, of prodigious size, all the others looking on at him in amazement. "You must fly as leader," they said. "No," replied Pauppukkeewis, "I will fly behind." "Very well," said they. "One thing we have to say to you. You must be careful in flying not to look down, for if you do something may happen to you."
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