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wasting your time in your words. We shall take part in what we 
think of you, that is what I say to you. But if now I and this your 
erandfather are the only two, why not even a mouthful of our words 
would be true. There is one who lives yonder South under the earth, 
that is where you will be told whatever you will be told. Then what 
we say will be true,” the one who accompanied him was told. “That 
is all I have to say to you, my grandchild, that is all I am able to 
tell you. You must feel glad now that we have blessed you,” the 
Indian was told. 
Then (the Indian and the other) went away, going to that place. 
Now, when they reached the place at South, they entered. The 
one by whom he had been blessed related: “Now, I have brought 
you this person, whom I have blessed. The reason I blessed him 
was because he made himself hungry and stumbled around from 
hunger. That is why I blessed him. I thought of him only in a 
good way. He has been spoken to a little by the one who is in the 
East. Only that which is good has been spoken to him. He was 
told that I would bring him here. That was why I brought him. 
And so he will name us all in succession when he begins to worship. 
You will also be glad when he worships you,” he was told. Then, it 
is said, “I suppose I'll have to speak to him alittle myself. Probably 
you have all given out our instructions and thoughts. Now, my 
grandchild, come here and sit down in front of me,” he (the one 
_ blessed) was told. Then he went there and sat down. Again he 
was stroked on the head once. “Now my grandchild, what I am 
going to say to you, whatever I may say to you, do that. You will 
listen to me. It makes no difference if I am repeating the words 
again. Now this, verily, is what I am going to say to you: in what- 
ever way this your grandfather thought of you when he first blessed 
you, the same I think of you. And again the one who is East, what 
he thinks of you, I also will think the same of you. But he has not 
given you a flute to possess. That truly is what you must use when 
you are worshipping. We shall hear it plainly, at least I shall hear 
it plainly myself. But you must only sound it when you are wor- 
shipping. Not at all shall I be deceived in my mind when you hold 
a gens festival. All of us who are called manitous are very sensitive 
in hearing it. We are not just merely sensitive in hearing it, but we 
always love especially to hear it. That,’’ he said to him, “is why I 
mention the flute also to you. Always sound it first when you are 
worshipping. Even if we are sleeping very hard, it will awake us. 
Verily we shall listen to you when you pray to us. That is all I 
have to say to you. But, my grandchild, if there are only three of 
us, what we say to you will not prove to be true. That is all that I 
am able to tell in giving you the flute to own. You must go over 
to see the one who lives in the West,” they were told. 
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