866 FOX MORTUARY CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS. [ETU. ANN. 40, 
ing him. Then he ran that way: such is the report concerning our 
nephew. He leaped from crest to crest of the great mountains: such 
is the report concerning (our nephew). When he arrived there on 
the run the grass was twisted where his younger brother had strug- 
gled. He felt like as if to ery. This whole earth shook and quaked. 
“Oh, go down in the earth,” the manitous said to each other: such 
is the report concerning them. Then Wi'sa‘ki'*’ started to turn 
and stand. He felt like crying. Then nearly all the manitous 
nearly fell out (of their holes). ‘‘Do your best, for it is your fault 
as you challenged Wi'sa‘ki'*’; you must get very far down in the 
earth,” they said to each other: such is the report on the manitous. 
Surely there was fear: such is the report concerning them. Some 
were very much afraid. 
Then Wi'sa‘ki'** departed for where (his people) lived. When he 
arrived where they lived there were merely deserted lodges. ‘‘Why, 
erandmother, where are all the people who were here?” he said to her. 
“What is it, my grandchild,” he was told. ‘‘Why they who were 
here were not people,” (she said to him). ‘‘Where are they all, I 
said,” he said to his little grandmother. ‘‘Oh, did you think they 
were people? They were manitous, my grandchild.” ‘Oh, yes, 
they must be manitous. I thought they were mortals, grand- 
mother,” he said to his little grandmother. ‘‘No, my grandchild, 
they are truly manitous,” he was told by his little grandmother. 
Then it is said, Wi'sa‘ki*' lay down. He lay down doubled up 
where he was. At night he heard some one far off. The second 
night he heard him about fairly near. ‘‘Why, I wonder what it is,” 
he thought. The third time he heard him very near by. ‘‘Why, my 
younger brother has been slain,” he thought, ‘‘some one has probably 
come to play a joke on me,” he thought. ‘‘Assuredly my younger 
brother has been slain,” he thought. The fourth night he thought 
(some one) was coming. He thought he was surely close to the door. 
‘Now, my elder brother, open( this) for me,” he was told. He merely 
changed (the position) where he lay. And he turned over to the other 
side. ‘‘Come, our fellow manitous have released me,” he was told. 
Oh, so be it, eventually our nephew turned where he iay: such is the 
report concerning our nephew, so be it. The fourth time he was 
spoken to, his little brother had his finger-nails showing. ‘‘Come, 
my elder brother, what, pray, is the reason that you do not open (the 
door) for me?” he was told at the time. ‘‘My little brother, I must 
not open (the door) for you,” he said to him. ‘‘ Why, in this way you 
have made our aunts and uncles wretched,” he was told. ‘Now, my 
little brother, I did not stop to think that our aunts and uncles would 
come to life again,’ he was told. ‘‘Now by chance I have wailed 
much over you, by chance the manitous have heard me. I simply 
did not think of anything; that is why I was not clever,” he said to 
