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2. 



Make ye the house, make ye, 



Make ye the house, make ye, 



Make ye, make ye. 



The Mystic House, 



Make ye the house, make ye. 



3. 



Make ye the house, make ye. 

 Make ye the house, make ye, 

 Make ye, make ye. 

 The frame of my house, 

 Make ye the house, make ye. 



Blue Jay Songs. 



The group of songs next in order is called Ki-ta'-ni-ga Wa-tho". 

 An uncertainty exists as to the bird referred to, for the blue jay and 

 the kingfisher are both known by the name ki-ta'-ni-ga. Wa-xthi'-zhi 

 could not recall these songs at the time and they had, therefore, to 

 be omitted. 



Supplication or Little Eventng Songs. 



The next group of songs has two titles, Wa-da' Wa-tho°, Suppli- 

 cation Songs, and Pa'-^e Wa-tho" Zhi^-ga, Little Evening Songs. 

 These songs had escaped the memory of Wa-xthi'-zhi, so he could 

 not give them. 



Songs of Gathering Wood. 



The next group, which is composed of two songs and a wi'-gi-e, 

 bears the title Zho" Thi'-xo° Wa-tho°, Songs of Gathering Wood. 

 The words of the two songs imply that the gatherers of the wood go 

 to the forest for their material, but their going is figurative rather 

 than a statement of fact. The songs really refer to a ceremonial act 

 performed by fom- men chosen to collect four pieces of wood from 

 the house of each head of four gentes of the tribe. These four pieces 

 of wood are collected to be used for the ceremonial kindling of the 

 sacred fire within the "Mystic House" when it has been set up at 

 the great Wa-sha'-be A-thi" ceremony. 



A free translation of one line of each stanza will suffice to give 

 the meaning as all the other lines are repetitions. 



