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myth 13

31. Thus he walked along the shore making rocks, making sand-flats; thus he went around [the lake], performing them like that. Now he went back inland, and facing the kae he sat on a log. The water was calm: "Water! You will not be like that!" thus he called to the water. Then he went to the water and he splashed it toward the land: "This is the way you will behave!" he told her. Then the wind blew and the water became rough, it becomes rough, and ran in waves over the shore, it ran in waves over the rocks: "Hyoh! Good! That's the way you will do!" thus he said, "hyoh! Now I will go [[strikethrough]]husk[[/strikethrough]]across" he said.

32. "Wah! What am I going to do? How am I going to go across? Wah!" he said, "Eh! that oak over there..." and going to a tree standing there he picked up from the ground an acorn shell, he took it to the shore and laid it by the side of the water. The water made waves and thereby the shell was pushed into the pater. It floated, it grew large, it grew larger, it floated toward the shore and became a boat. "Hyoh! That's a good boat for us!" thus he said.