Prevod
Vodni škrati iz potokov okoli Katahdina so zapustili svoj rojstni kraj in odpotovali v gorovje Agiochooks, kjer so tamkajšnji Indijanci za njihovo navzočnost izvedeli zaradi tatvin in smrti. Ko je manitu Glooskap izvedel, da ti škrati jedo človeško meso in počenjajo še druge grozote, si je nadel njihovo podobo, polovico telesa spremenil v kamen in jih šel iskat. Vigvam so postavili blizu Doma vodnih vil — kraja, ki so ga prebivalci North Conwaya nesmiselno preimenovali v Diana's Bath — in ko je vstopil, so ga povabili k mesnemu obroku. Skuhali so kitov rep in mu ga ponudili, toda ko si ga je položil na kolena, je eden od škratov vzkliknil: »To je predobro za berača, kakršen si ti,« in mu ga iztrgal. Glooskap si je moral le zaželeti, da bi se poslastica vrnila, pa je že priletela nazaj na njegov pladenj. Nato je vzel kitovo čeljust in jo prelomil kakor trstiko; napolnil je pipo in z enim samim vdihom sežgal ves tobak v pepel; ko so gostitelji zaprli vigvam in začeli silovito kaditi, da bi pokvarili zrak in ga omamili, je v dimu užival, njim pa je postalo slabo. Zato so si zašepetali: »To je mogočen čarovnik in njegove moči moramo preizkusiti še drugače.«
Predlagali so igro z žogo in se odpravili na peščeno ravnico ob zavoju reke Saco, kjer so začeli igrati. Toda Glooskap je ugotovil, da je žoga strašna lobanja, ki se je kotalila proti njemu in hlastala po njem ter bi mu raztrgala meso, ko to ne bi bilo nesmrtno in neločljivo od njegovih kosti. Z enim udarcem jo je zdrobil, nato pa odlomil drevesno vejo in jo z eno samo besedo spremenil v desetkrat večjo lobanjo, ki se je pognala za hudobneži, kakor divja mačka plane na zajca. Tedaj je bog udaril z nogo ob pesek in v gorah so se odprli vsi izviri, tako da je Saco narasel in planil skozi dolino z bučanjem, ob katerem so ljudstva trepetala. Škrate je zajela povodenj in jih odnesla v morje, kjer jih je Glooskap spremenil v ribe.
Izvirnik
Water-Goblins from the streams about Katahdin had left their birthplace and journeyed away to the Agiochooks, making their presence known to the Indians of that region by thefts and loss of life. When the manitou, Glooskap, learned that these goblins were eating human flesh and committing other outrages, he took on their own form, turning half his body into stone, and went in search of them. The wigwam had been pitched near the Home of the Water Fairies,--a name absurdly changed by the people of North Conway to Diana's Bath,--and on entering he was invited to take meat. The tail of a whale was cooked and offered to him, but after he had taken it upon his knees one of the goblins exclaimed, “That is too good for a beggar like you,” and snatched it away. Glooskap had merely to wish the return of the dainty when it flew back into his platter. Then he took the whale's jaw, and snapped it like a reed; he filled his pipe and burned the tobacco to ashes in one inhalation; when his hosts closed the wigwam and smoked vigorously, intending to foul the air and stupefy him, he enjoyed it, while they grew sick; so they whispered to each other, “This is a mighty magician, and we must try his powers in another way.”
A game of ball was proposed, and, adjourning to a sandy level at the bend of the Saco, they began to play, but Glooskap found that the ball was a hideous skull that rolled and snapped at him and would have torn his flesh had it not been immortal and immovable from his bones. He crushed it at a blow, and breaking off the bough of a tree he turned it by a word into a skull ten times larger than the other that flew after the wicked people as a wildcat leaps upon a rabbit. Then the god stamped on the sands and all the springs were opened in the mountains, so that the Saco came rising through the valley with a roar that made the nations tremble. The goblins were caught in the flood and swept into the sea, where Glooskap changed them into fish.
