126 THK OSAGE TRIBE [ejth. ann. 36 



42. Tlic loose muscles of my throat 



43. I have also 



44. Made to be the means of reaching old age. 



45. Wlien the little ones make of them the means of reaching old age, 



46. They shall enable themselves to live to see in the loosened muscles 



(if their throats the signs of old age. 



47. Tlie hair on the crown of my head, grown thin with age, 



48. I have also 



49. Made to be the means of reaching old age. 



50. When the little ones also make of my thin hair the means of 



reaching old age, 



51. They shall enable themselves to live to see in the thinned hair of 



the crown of their heads the signs of old age. 



52. The white hair on my head 



53. I have also 



54. Made to be the means of reaching old age. 



55. When the little ones also make of my white hair the means of 



reaching old age, 



56. They shall enable themselves to live to see that the hair on their 



heads has grown yellowish with age. 



57. Of the god of day 



58. I, as a person, as a people, have verily made my body. 



59. Verily, there is a god who never fails to appear at the beginning 



of day, 



60. The god who lies as though dipped in red (the dawn). 



61. Of that god also 



62. I, as a person, as a people, have verily made my body. 



63. By the side of the god who never fails to appear at the begin- 



ning of day (the sun), 



64. Even at his left side, 



65. Stands a plumelike shaft of light. 



66. I, as a person, as a people, have made my body of this plume. 



67. When the little ones make their plumes hke this shaft of light, 



68. They shall always live to see old age. 



69. When the little ones approach old age, 



70. Having made their plumes like to the shaft of light, 



71. Their symbolic plumes shall never droop as they travel the path 



of life. 



72. By the side of the god who never fails to appear at the begin- 



ning of day (the sun), 



73. Even at his right side, 



74. There stands a plumelike shaft of light. 



