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143. Z)w<^w?5aa? before ^a", perhaps the full meaning- is: If there must 

 be meat there, I think that you are [sitting] eating it; so, Atopix ka'^ 

 in line 145, instead of Atopi ha^. Compare i^hi^x Jca'^^ "when it 

 had to come;" tahiya^ i^hi^x ho^ "when his time to die must come." 



116. Toldlkuna^ said to mean "Old but small," the name of the 

 smallest bird found in Louisiana, "the big-eyed bird," used in this 

 m3"th as a personal name, borne by the son of the bad Old Woman. 

 This is not the humming-bird {momoxka). 



117-150. ahi nedi^ pronounced a hi nedi. 



118. Awo neya"^ xaT^: cca™, here 'and in the next line, seems to be an 

 imperative. 



151. Xmn naskex ya^^ the verb "fetch" may be supplied as in 17; 

 27-28; 52; 53-54. 



156. itaha^niyaJ^^ but in 170, yataha^ni 



159, 171. de te ne ha'^^ "when he was getting ready to go;" ada te 

 yuke ka^ would be "when they were getting ready to go." 



160. i^dahax ku-te, contracted from i^-daJia ha"^ ku-tS, '"''let them 

 alone and be returning." 



165. ona'^ for fnanki (?). 



170. kiye-daha-ka'^, imperative, female to male, "Say [thou] to 

 them." The use of the plural for the singular, and vice versa, occurs 

 often in the m}' ths, but it can not be explained. In this case the Old 

 Woman orders her son, Tcidikmia, to say something to Tube, who is 

 only one person, though daha has a plural reference. 



171-173. Warning given to Tube by the daughters of the Old 

 Woman. 



173. ema'^hi^ {=em.a^-i-i'^hi^). 



176. atkyuhi {hi)', see yatkuhi., 2d sing., in 173; si^x ka'^, from si^hi^^ 

 ko'P- causes the change of A^" to x. 



179. Kd^ni ukankayi^ " his-mother her- vine, devil's shoestrings," 

 the goat's rue (Tephrosa mrginiana). 



180. ukanki^ "it lodged on her." There must have been a loop 

 which caught her, or which she caught. 



181. paioehi yd^ni would be " to conjure an animal to or for another 

 person." 



197, etc. unkpaya^ archaic for unkpaya'^; so inksponiya for inkspon- 

 iyaP- (199). 



201. kiduksUki, of course this was not intentional on the part of the 

 Old Woman. 



203. klyoxte {xte)^ "to make a fire for her;" i. e., for cooking the 

 body of your dead mother. 



205. kidl refers to Tahe. 



213. Nuxod-xapi., " box alligator," said by the Biloxi to be a species 

 of alligator which dwells in the ocean. It served as a boat for Tube 

 and his party. 



