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Mikchich visits (sees) his wife; they live happily and a baby they get

(see). Then some time afterwards, Kuloskap comes to see his uncle and

the child cries. "Do you understand what he says?" Kuloskap says. "No,"

Mikchich replies, "perhaps he is talking in the Mosigiskw tongue; there

is no man living who can understand it." Then Kuloskap says: "He is

mentioning eggs; he says _hoowah_, _hoowah_." This the Passamaquoddies

still call an egg. Mikchich says: "Where are there any?" Kuloskap

directs him to dig in the sand; he will find many of them. He rejoices

greatly and wonders at them. Still even now to commemorate what Kuloskap

did to the turtles and how he jested, the turtles (Mikchich) lay eggs

even to this day.

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