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groups this quality of the wolf is referred to by expressions such as 

 this, "Like the wolf I fear not to venture into strange lands." (27th 

 Ann. Kept. B. A. E., pp. 417, 419.) 



The first of the Sho'-'-ge Wa-tho° has two stanzas. In this song 

 the Xthe'-ts'a-ge are likened, as they go forth over the land, to noisy 

 wolves, because their scouts as they come and go call to each other 

 by imitating the cries of the wolf in order to avoid detection by the 

 enemy. 



Only the first and second lines of each stanza will be translated, 

 as all the other lines are repetitions of these. 



Song 1. 

 (Osage version, p. 410; literal translation, p. 546.) 



MM J - 160 Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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ho a-tsi a-tha he, Ho-ho a-tsi a-tha he, ho-ho a-tsi a-thahe. 



FREE TRANSLATION. 

 1 



The gray wolf passes by with noisy cries, 



Passes by with noisy cries, passes by with noisy cries. 



2. 



I am the gra.\- wolf who passes by with noisy cries, 



Who passes by with noisy cries, who passes by with noisy cries. 



