130 THE OSAGE TRIBE 



[ETH. ANN. 36 



166. They shall enable themselves to live to see old ajje. 



167. When tlio little ones use the yellow corn for food, 



168. Tlioy shall live to see their limbs stretch in growtii as they travel 



the path of life. 



169. The people of the Wa-zha'-zhe 



170. And those of the Ho"'-ga 



171. Shall use the corn for food at all times. 



172. When they use it for food, 



178. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 

 the path of life. 



174. The four great divisions of the days, 



175. They shall always cause themselves to reach and to enter, 



176. Even to the days that are calm and peaceful 



177. They shall bring themselves as they travel the path of life. 



The Tsi'-zh0 We-ha-ge (The Last Tsi'-zhu) Gens 



(Osage version, p. 349; literal translation, p. 516) 



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



2. The Tsi'-zhu, a people who possess seven fireplaces, 



3. Spake to the Tsi'-zhu We-ha-ge (The Last Tsi'-zhu), 



4. Saj'ing: O, grandfather, 



5. We have nothing that is suitable to use as a symbol. 



6. 'Tsi'-zhu We-ha-ge hastened to reply, saying: O, little ones, 



7. You say you have nothing that is suitable to use as a symbol. 



8. I am a person who may well be used as a symbol. 



9. Of the Red Black Bear (red is here used as a trope), 



10. I, as a person, have verily made my body. 



11. Wlien the little ones seek refuge in me as they travel tiie path 



of life, 



12. They shall always live to see old age. 



13. When they make of me the means of reaching old age, 



14. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



15. The skin of my feet that is dark in color 



16. I have maile to be as my charcoal. 



17. When the little ones make it to be as their charcoal, 



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



they travel the path of life. 



1 9. The tip of my nose, that is dark in color, 



20. I have made to be as my charcoal. 



21. When the little ones make it to be as their charcoal, 



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



they travel tb ipath of life. 



