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KITE OF VIGIL FREE TRANSLATION. 



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Songs of the Gray Owl. 



Wa-Ro'-ga Wa-tho", Songs of the Gray Owl, is the title of the next 

 group of songs. These songs disclose to the minds of the No^'-ho"- 

 zhi°-ga a scene having for its central figure the Do-do°'-ho°-ga of a 

 war party who stands alone keeping his nightly vigil. Out of the 

 darkness, out of the silence of the night, he may hear the mournful 

 voice of the great gray owl, or the horned owl, or the splash of a 

 snake in the water, or the cry of some nocturnal animal, any one of 

 wliich comes to him first he may take as a favorable response to his 

 supplications. 



In the two stanzas of the first song Wa-po'-ga, the gray owl, and 

 I'-to°, the horned owl, are mentioned and personified. 



A free translation of two lines from each stanza will suffice to give 

 the meaning, as the other lines are repetitions. 



Song 1. 

 (Osage version, p. 465; literal translation, p. 592.) 

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FREE TRANSLATION. 

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Hark! out of tlie silence of the night there comes the voice of a man, 



It is the voice of the Wa-po'-ga who speaks to me in the stillness of the night. 



Hark ! out of the silence of the night there comes the voice of a man, 

 It is the voice of I'-to° who speaks to me in the stillness of the night. 



