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21. So much is to be said here, and the Hymn is to be sung 
again, and then he is to go on and walk up and down in the house 
again, saying as follows: 
22. “Hail, my grandsires! Now hear, therefore, what they 
did—all the rules they decided on, which they thought would 
strengthen the House, Hail, my grandsires! this they said; Now we 
have finished; we have performed the rites; we have put on the 
horns; 
23. “Now again another thing they considered and this they 
said: ‘Perhaps this will happen. Scarcely shall we have arrived 
at home when a loss will occur again.’ They said, ‘This, then shall 
be done, Assoon as he is dead, even then the horns shall be taken off. 
For if invested with horns he should be borne into the grave, O 
my grandsires, they said, ‘we should perhaps all perish if invested 
with horns he is conveyed to the grave.’ 
24. “Then again another thing they determined, O my 
grandsires! This they said, ‘will strengthen the House.’ They 
said if any one should be murdered and (the body) be hidden away 
among fallen trees by reason of the neck being white, then you 
have said, this shall be done, We will place it by the wall in the 
shade. 
25. “Now again you considered and you said: It is perhaps 
not well that we leave this here, lest it should be seen by our grand- 
children; for they are troublesome, prying into every crevice. 
People will be startled at their returning in consternation, and will 
ask what has happened that this (corpse) is lying here; because 
they will keep on asking until they find it out. And they will at 
once be disturbed in mind, and that again will cause us trouble. 
26. “Now again they decided and said: This shall be done, 
We will pull up a pine tree—a lofty tree—and will make a hole 
through the earth crust, and will drop this thing into a swift 
current which will carry it out of sight, and then never will our 
grandchildren see it again. 
27. “ Now again another thing they decided, and thought, this 
will strengthen the House. They said: ‘Now we have finished; 
we have performed the rites. Perhaps presently it will happen. 
that a loss will occur amongst us. Then this shall be done. We 
will suspend a pouch upon a pole, and will place in it some mourn- 
ing wampum—some short strings—to be taken to the place where 
the loss was suffered. The bearer will enter, and will stand by 
the hearth, and will speak afew words to comfort those who will 
be mourning; and then they will be comforted, and will conform 
to the law. 
