The best I can make out of the phonographic record given me by Peter Selmore of the words which she sang is,. According to Leland, Pookjinsquess sang the following words when she left Black Cat: Several Indians assured me that the song was old. This sentence seems to supply the place of unknown Indian words. I think there are internal evidences of the antiquity of this song, although the English sentence, “Wait for me,” shows the modern character of certain of the words. Cheney, and left Black Cat on the island. Pookjinsquess went off, singing as she went the following song, which has been written out from the phonographic record by Mr. When he got to where the bird fell he could not find it. The bird fell, and Black Cat jumped into the water to get what they had shot. A large, very beautiful bird flew over them. There they filled baskets with eggs and started home in the canoe. She took him across the water in a canoe to an island which was very distant. To make way with him she invited him to go with her for gulls’ eggs. But Black Cat offended Pookjinsquess and made her angry. She thought she would like to have for her husband Black Cat if she could get rid of Cooloo. Then the Black Cat and Sable returned home to Cooloo, whose wife was Pookjinsquess. The Turtle was the last, and got only the blood. Black Cat and Sable called all the animals and birds to the feast the caribous, wild horses, and swift animals and birds were first to arrive at the feast. 5 The Snake then followed the Sable, and, as he passed over the hemlock trunk, Black Cat killed him, and they cut him in small fragments. 4 When it was hot he struck the Snake on the head and blinded him. The Sable replied, “I can straighten it,” and held it in the fire. The Snake said the stick was too crooked. The Sable sought out the most crooked stick he could find, and then returned to the wigwam where the Snake was. 3 While the Snake was watching the process of straightening the stick and the exit of the steam, Black Cat told Sable that he should strike the Snake over the head. The Black Cat instructed Sable to reply that he would straighten it in the fire, holding it there until the steam came out of the end. When he had found a stick, he should carry it to the Snake, who would complain that the stick was not straight enough. He told him that he would lie down behind the trunk of a hemlock tree which had fallen, and that Sable should search out a stick that was very crooked, obeying the commands of the big Snake. The Black Cat told Sable not to be afraid, but that he would kill the big Snake. Then the Sable told the Black Cat the trouble he was in, and how the Snake was going to kill him.
2 The Black Cat heard him and came to him. Sable then went out and sang in a loud voice a song which he hoped his brother the Black Cat would hear and come to his aid. The Snake told him to go into the woods and get a straight stick, so that when he pierced him he would not tear open his entrails. The Snake said he was glad the Sable had come, as he was very hungry. He went in and found within a large Snake. Sable in his wanderings came to a peculiarly shaped wigwam. In this journey they were lost, and separated from each other. The Sable and the Black Cat went in a stone canoe to a place where they make maple sugar. Brown tells me there is a story which accounts for the hump on the back of Pookjinsquess, as follows: While leaning against a tree, some one cut off the tree above and below her shoulders, and she consequently carries the hump on her back.Ĭooloo, the great bird that overspreads all with his wings, was a chief. A copy of this picture is given at the end of this paper. A bark picture of Pookjinsquess leaving the island, representing the gulls, and Black Cat on the back of the Snail, was made by Josephs. 1 The original was told into the phonograph in Passamaquoddy by Peter Selmore, in the presence of Noel Josephs.
The translation of the following tale of Pogump, or Black Cat and the Sable, was given me by Mrs.
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