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Analysis. — The rhythm of this song shows remarkable clearness of 

 concept. There are two rhythmic units, the entire song being com- 

 posed of their repetitions. The order of their occurrence is irregular, 

 but this feature seems to give an interesting unity to the rhythm of 

 the song as a whole. The melody tones are those of the fourth five- 

 toned scale. The tempo of the drum indicates four drumbeats to 

 one melody note, an'd this proportion was maintained during most 

 of the melody, drum and voice coinciding on the first part of each 

 count. As in many other melodies of the present series, the down- 

 ward progressions comprise about two-thirds of the whole number. 



Resuming the story of his dream, Lone Man said : 



After my return to the camp I wanted to do something to show that I realized my 

 unworthiness of the honor given me by the thunderbirds. No one told me that I 

 ought to do this, and yet all who dream of the thunderbirds in any of their manifesta- 

 tions have a deep sense of their own unworthiness. I knew that I was only an ordinary 

 mortal and had often done wi'ong, yet the riders in the air had disregarded this. By 

 appearing to me they had given me a chance to i-edeem myself. I wanted to make a 

 public humiliation to show how deeply I realized my unworthiness. I wanted to do 

 as oth(?rs had done who saw the thunderbirds in their dreams, so I made the following 

 song. 



