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Song 3. 

 (Osage version, p. 493; literal translation, p. 616.) 



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Song 5 refers to the act of the warriors in marching one by one 

 over the four bunches of grass which the Do-do" '-ho°-ga used as 

 symbols when making liis appeal for divine aid. If the warriors of 

 the Tsi'-zhu great division are the first to pass over the symbolic 

 bunches of grass, each man, as he advances, uses his left foot first; 

 but if the warriors of the Ho^'-ga great division are the first to move, 

 each man begins by putting forth his right foot first. By this sym- 

 bolic act the warriors themselves ask for supernatural aid; they ask 



