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(On reporting this to the leader, the latter said), 

 2(i •• O Kaxe-wahii-sa", my younger brother ! we must still see what can lie done."' 



So he went to the Morning Star, saying, 



"■ Ho, grandfather! the children have no bodies." 



He replied, " I have an everlasting road tin wliicli 1 must keep) ; 

 30 •• I am not the only mysterious one : 



'• You must still seek for help." 



(On reporting this to the leader, the latter said). 



" O Kaxe-wahii-sa'', my younger brother ! we must still see what can be done." 

 33 So he went to the Red Bird, who was sitting (on her nest), saying. 



" Ho, grandmother ! 



The children have no liodies.' 



36 They went to the good land of day. 



In four revolutions or gyrations of the upper worlds, we beeanie human beings. 



Though we were human beings, we did not find bodies. 

 39 They arrived at the second revolution of the upper worlds. 



There we were not (complete) human beings. 



They arrived at the third revolution of the upper worlds. 

 42 There we were not (complete) human l)eings. 



They arrived at the fourth revolution of the upper worlds. 



They stood on a sycamore tree. 

 45 Tliey stood there at harvest time. 



•■ Ho. younger brother ! a man has left a trail." 



'• Ho, elder brother !" said the Black Bear : "you have said that a man has left a 

 trail. 



•• This is the man." 

 48 " Ho, elder brother !" (said the stranger) ■•! am Young Haii5(a. " 



[Tsiou.] " Ho, younger brother! a man has left a trail." 



[Black Bear.] " Ho, elder brother! you have said that a man has left a trail. 



"This is the man." 

 .51 •• Ho, elder brother !" (said the stranger) •■ I am Osage. 



•■ We shall be HaflJfa people." 



Some people left a trail. 

 54 Those were the lodges of the HaiiJ[a utaitan^se. 



(The Han5(a utai/;an}se leader said) 



'• Ho ! some persons have come. 



•'Tsiou and Watsetsi have come." 

 57 They thought of what was good for the children. 



They decided that the two should continue as chiefs for the children. 



They decided that the two should continue without anything that would be fatal 

 to the children. (And they said) 

 60 •• There shall be an assembly of the children. 



•• You tw^o shall seek a land in which the children may become men." 



They two arranged for the location of a land in order that the chiklren might 

 become men in it. 

 63 The Female Beaver, who had been traveling, came to the confines of the village 

 (of the HaflJia utaifanjseV) 



(She made?) a small Iciilge (I'm- luTself V). 



Good Voice, of tlic Mi"k'i" i^cns. knew tlie lii.Ktory of tlie Female 

 Beaver, biit he failed to kee]i his proiui.se to dietate it to the author. 



