Lady Louse lived there in that great big house!
All alone.
She had no friends or relatives.
Then she took it.
And she
swept it.
That great big house.
There was lots of dirt!
When she got to the very middle of the house, she got lost!
That was the end of Lady Louse!
That's all.
Lushootseed story told by Elizabeth Kruse to Thom Hess in
1962 at
Tulalip. Storyteller and Upper Skagit
elder Vi Hilbert uses this story to introduce people to the Lushootseed
language and
culture. She does not explain the story, but encourages her
audiences to come up with their own
interpretation, and their own ten line story about Lady Louse. A collection of these stories, inspired by this one, is available from Lushootseed Press.