96 THE OSAGE TRIBE Ieth. iNN. 3C 



4. Called Ta-tlia'-xi° (the Lungs of the Deer), 



5. Sajnng: O, grandfather, 



6. We have nothuig that is fit to use as a symbol. 



7. The Ta-tha'-xi" hastened to say: O, little ones, 



8. You say you have nothing that is fit to use as a symbol. 



9. I am a person who is fit for use as a symbol. 



10. There is a little animal (the deer) (pi. 7, h). 



11. Of which I have always made my bod}'. 



12. The little ones shall use that animal as a symbol. 



13. When they use that little animal as a symbol, 



14. They shall have a symbol that will satisfy their desires. 



15. Verily, at that time and place, it has been said, in this house, 



16. He said to them: Behold the color of my hoofs, that is black in 



color. 



17. I have made that color to be as my charcoal. 



18. When the little ones also make that color as their charcoal, 



19. They shall have charcoal that will easily sink into their skin. 



20. Behold the tip of my nose, that is black in color. 



21. I have made that color to be as my charcoal. 



22. When the little ones make that color as their charcoal, 



23. They shall have charcoal that will easily sink into their skin. 



24. Behold the color of the tips of my ears, that are black. 



25. I have made that color to be as my charcoal. 



26. When the little ones make of that color their bodies, 



27. They shall have charcoal that will easily sink into their skin. 



28. All these shall stand as symbols for the little ones. 



29. Behold the young male deer whose horns are still of a dark gray 



hue. 



30. That animal shall always be a symbol to the little ones. 



31. They shall have power, even as I have, to evade all dangers. 



32. When my enemies hurl at me their shafts that fly around me in 



forked lines 



33. As they pursue and surround me and my companions, 



34. Yet with the power (of fleetness) I possess I can escape these 



dangers. 



35. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



36. They also shall have power to overcome the dangers that lie in 



their life's pathway. 



37. The four successive days (stages of life) 



38. I successfully reach and cause myself to enter. 



39. Wlien the little ones make of me their bodies, 



40. The four successive days (stages of life), 



41. They also shall successfully reach and enter. 



42. When they make of me the means to reach old age, 



43. They shall always live to see old age. 



