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MICHELSON. ] INTRODUCTION. 367 
his little brother. ‘‘Now, my little brother, I must not open (the 
door) for you,” he said to him. ‘‘Where this manitou who goes by 
shining when there is daylight (i. e., the sun) continues to go out of 
sight, there you will go and kindle a fire for our aunts and our uncles,” 
he said to him. 
Then (Wi'sa‘ki“’) started to rise to his feet, took down their rattle, 
picked up their drum, slid their flute out of a bundle, and then 
(picked up) their burning fire stick. ‘‘That, my little brother, is 
what I fetched you,” he said to him. ‘ ‘Now, my little brother, 
should you think, ‘I shall lose sight of much of our food,’ (you are 
mistaken:) your food will, so be it, be far nicer. Our aunts and our 
uncles will continue to bring you much of it. Should you think, 
‘T shall lose smoking tobacco,’ my little brother, verily our aunts and 
our uncles will always bring it to you. Should you think, ‘Oh what a 
lot of goods I have left,’ my little brother, as long as the earth con- 
tinues to be green, our aunts and our uncles will continue to bring 
more to you,” he said tohim. ‘‘And, my little brother, you will have 
more power than those called manitous: they will not have as much 
power as you.’ You alone will have fivefold power,’*® he said to 
his younger brother. ‘‘But, my younger brother, you must have 
pity on those I shall live with in the future. Surely, my younger 
brother, my people are going to be wretched. Verily, you must bless 
them for my sake, so that they shall ask back from each other that 
with which each shall cover each other (. e., blankets). Exactly 
what you think of my (people) they will do, in whatever way you 
think of them and in whatever way you bless them. Surely my 
fellow-people and I shall live wretchedly,”’ he said to him, ‘‘my 
younger brother, when you start to leave me this day, you will walk 
away quietly. Do not think of looking back at me just for fun. 
You must, my younger brother, merely think of what is good, and 
do not think of being down-hearted. You must think quietly so you 
may have a good step in your walk (?). You must look only straight 
ahead. Do not think of lookmg sideways anywhere. Nor must 
you think uselessly of this our habitation. Do not think of your 
former possessions. You must quietly walk away to-day. You 
must believe what I say to you. You must remember what I say 
to you. Do not, my younger brother, fail to recollect what I tell you 
here this day. ‘And, so be it, my younger brother, whenever our 
aunts eventually remember each other they will always ask each 
other fervently for food and for that with which they cover each 
other (i. e., blankets), or anything, even life. You must bless them 
for my sake in whatever way you think of them for my sake. Those 
with whom I live shall be wretched indeed, my little brother,” he said 
to him. 
7 Free rendition, but the sense of the passage. 
§ That is, five times that of the other manitous. 
