LAFLBSCHEj BITE OF VIGIL FKEE TRANSLATION. 133 



Song 3. 

 (Osage version, p. 412; literal translation, p. 548.) 

 M.M.J = 153 Trtnscribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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FREE TRANSLATION. 

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My elder brother shoots where he stands in wait, 



He wounds the deer, it runs, he wounds the deer, it runs ! 



In the fourth song the scene shifts from the rush-covered house 

 wherein sits the sister to the woods where the brother swiftly follows 

 the fleeing deer he has wounded. 



The song has two stanzas. The brother is represented as speaking. 

 The first and third lines of each stanza are translated, as all the other 

 lines are repetitions. 



