The Were-fish
by George Ricehill
p. 63 —
| Hąhą́, | eja | uáñgera | nųpíwi | nañkíkara | haraíre |
| Well, | there | man | two | hunting | went |
| gają | waké | síže | hot’ą́birešgùni | Hiró-e | harairešgúni. |
| and then | coon | track | they came on. | Tracking it | they went. |
| ’Uąhíregaja | ną | xétežą | éja | ješgúni | síra |
| After going a distance | tree | a big one | [there] | was standing | tracks |
| éja | žejąšgúni, | égi | uañgenáñka | hižą | nąjega |
| [there] | ended, | [and] | these men | one | that tree |
| hotíšguni. | Gáją | éja | pox | ješgúni. | Horuǧúč |
| climbed. | And then | [there] | a hole | was. | He looked |
| gają | ho sgáxjįje | ejakšgúni. | Maínja | hot’unešgúni | égi |
| and then | a [very] white fish | there was. | Down | he threw it | [and] |
p. 64 —
| gisákšguni | égi | ručgúni. | Čebígiži | iwúzera | rokánagìži. |
| he killed it | [and] | ate it. | After consuming it | he was thirsty | very much. |
| Nína | howárešgùni. | Ni-éja | higìži | niráčganą. | Rušjáną |
| Water | he went for. | The water [there] | when he got to | he drank. | Get done |
| rušakšgúni, | žégų | ’ú’wañk’ų | ho | inšgúni. | Wakéžą |
| he couldn't, | and then | continuing | fish | he turned into. | A coon |
| ruxára nihéra. | Hówak’ų | ručgá | ásge | uáñkjega | ho |
| chasing after he started. | I (?) gave him [or they got a fish?] | he ate | so | the man | fish |
| iñgúni, | aíre. | Ženuñgáną. |
| turned into, | they say. | That's all. |
[1] George Ricehill, [untitled], in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks, Freeman #3892 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) Winnebago III, #11a: 63-64.