Fix your view on
the middle of
the wide sky
Abandon all
to dance
Spread your legs apart
a little wider
Sway this way
and that way
and dance.

By then the ukpik was really whooping it up, with his eyes turned so much to the sky that he was leaning totally backwards. With no more thought to the fine siksik he had cornered, he kicked his legs high as he danced.

The siksik finished the last verse of his song and, with a “ti-ti-ti-ti,” he led for the safety of his burrow, right between the dancing legs of the ukpik. The ukpik called out again to his friends, “Iijai, jai, he got away, he got away. Go back now, go back now!?

The ukpik had been unaware of the siksik’s plan to trick him. He went along with his instructions to celebrate and, oh, what a sorry bird he was now! And there were all the friends he had summoned now returning home.