The following story will be special
for each of you who want to know the real meaning of love.
Hmm, there once lived a chief’s
daughter who had many admirers. all the young men in the village wanted to have
her for a wife and were all eager to fill her skin bucket when she went to the
brook for water.
There was young man in the village. he
was a good hunter but he was poor and had a mean family. He loved the maiden
and wished he could marry her. So, one day when she went for water, he threw
his robe over her head while he whispered in her ear: “will you marry me?”
For a long time the maiden acted as if she hadn’t heard anything, but one day she whispered back telling that she would be willing to marry him if he took a scalp.
So he made a war party of seven,
himself and six other young men. Before they started, they sat down to smoke
and rest beside a beautiful lake at the foot of a green grass and somehow as
they looked at it. They had a feeling that there was something about it that was
mysterious and uncanny.
One of the lover’s was so curious
about it that he ventured into the knoll.
Four of the young men followed.
Having reached to the top of the knoll, all five began to jump and stamp
about in sport.
But, suddenly they stopped. The knoll
had begun to move toward the water. It
was a gigantic turtle! The five men cried out in alarm and tried to run, but it
was to late! They cried; but the others could do nothing. In just a few
moments, the waves had closed over them.
The others two men: the lover and his
friend, went on, but heavy heart. After some days, they came to a river. Worn
out with fatigue, the lover threw himself down on the bank. Fortunately, the
lover’s friend came to help him.
The following days, his friend told
him that he found a fish which he had cleaned and asked him to eat the fish
together. The lover said that if he ate the fish, his friend had to promise to
fetch him all the water that he could drink. When they had eaten, the kettle
was rinsed out and the lover’s friend bought it back with full of water. The
lover drank the water at a draught. Again his friend filled the kettle at the
river and again the lover drank it dry but still asked for more water. The
lover’s friend then took the lover to the river. When the lover saw the river,
he walked to the river, sprang in, and lying down in the water with his head
toward land, drank greedily.
Then he called out his friend. The
friend came and was amazed to see that the lover was now a fish from his feet
to his middle. Sick at heart he ran of a little away and threw himself upon the
ground in grief. After awhile, he returned to find that the lover was now a
fish up to his neck.
The friend went home and told his
story. There was great mourning over the death of the five young men and for
the lost lover. In the river, the lover had become a great
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