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been made angry; some, because he was jealous toward them over 
something, he killed them for that reason. That is what I know 
about your father. Several times he had tried to give it to me; 
that I should be the sole owner of it, he always said ‘No,’ I would 
tell him. And he would even get angry at me because he failed 
to persuade me. That was what he has been trying to get me to do”’ 
(she said). 
“That was the reason, I told you to come up there, mother. That 
is all I have to say to you, and do not be longing for me, for I always 
sleep a long time. It is not just for fun; something happens to me 
when I am sleeping. That is all,’”’ he said to her. 
She went away. She gave thanks. ‘All of my different rela- 
tives, my grandfathers,” his mother said. 
“All right,’’ he answered her. 
Those by whom he had been blessed were gladdened thereby. 
After she had gone a little while, he began to get sleepy. He lay 
down very comfortably. After lying down comfortably he fell asleep. 
When he was sleeping very heayily at once the one who had been 
there previously came. ‘‘ Now, I shall explain these songs to you 
according to the order the songs are. You are to use the dancing 
songs in between. And you will merely sing in between times. 
And when they are feasting, then you are to sing. After they have 
ceased dancing three times, then they are to feast. Then after they 
have eaten, then you are to have them dance. Then after you have 
made them dance, ‘ Now, you each may go to your respective homes,’ 
is the way you must speak to them. Then they will go (to their 
respective homes). 
“But you must always end your gens festival while the sun is up. 
Do not ever let the night come on you, that is what is against your 
ways. ‘The night shall never come on me,’ you are to think. 
You are to complete your gens festival in haste. And end your gens 
festival early. And (observe) this also: As soon as the sun comes 
up you shall begin singing, that is what you are to do. 
“You do not have to be thinking of the manitous very long. So 
that they will be careful is why you are to tell the fellow members of 
your gens. You will tell them truthfully how much we think of 
you, so that they will carry it to the end; you are to think of them 
and tell them kindly about the songs.’’ And then it is said (he con- 
tmued), ‘‘ Now you are going to see and learn of what you ar» going 
to do always,” he was told. 
Then the manitous held a gens festival. ‘That is what you will 
always do, so you will remember the songs,’ he was told. 
They started out. Lo! here was a town. They went straight to a 
long lodge. When they came, they staid there all alone for some 
time. Toward evening they began to bring all kinds of things; they 
