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THE OSAGE TKIBE. 



f BTH. AXN. 39 



FREE TRANSLATION. 



1. 



The man who sits here I give to you, 

 A valorous man I give to you. 



2. 



The man who sits here I give to you, 



A man wlio can speak great words I give to you. 



The third song refers to two scenes that are enacted in the cere- 

 mony of the leading of the Wa'-do-'-be to the seat prepared for him 

 at the west end of the k)dge, one of which is the instructions received 

 by the Singer to lead the Wa'-do°-be to his seat and to his carrying 

 out those instructions; the other is the remarks made by individuals 

 of the assembly to one another that the warrior who is to count his 

 o-do°' is being led to his ceremonial seat. A free translation of two 

 of the lines in each stanza descriptive of these two scenes will suffice 

 to give the meaning of the song, as all the other lines are iterative 

 of one or the other of the two lines. 



Song .3. 

 (Osage version, p. 440; literal translation, p. 672.) 



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Go and lead him thither, lead him thither. 



Look you, he who has good words is being led to his seat. 



