MICHELSON.) BEGINNING OF STORY HOW ANY ONE DIES. 389 
thought. Well, as he once shut his eye an instant he again lost (one 
of them). So he went along with one. He watched him very closely. 
Soon he also lost him. So it seems he lost all he accompanied. 
“Well, I shall run over to the side of yonder hill for a view for the 
last time,’ he thought. He started off running by himself. He 
ran up a hill to where there was a view, and he again started running. 
Now once when he stopped running, soon he heard his little brother. 
“Now, Wi'sa‘ki‘’, my older brother, where, pray, are you? At 
last these (manitous) are killing me,” so he was told when he was 
besought by his younger brother. ‘‘ Wherever you are, come,” he 
was told. He started running. He ran in the direction he heard 
him. He leaped from the crests of hills to the crests of other hills.® 
When he halted in his flight, surely the voice of his little brother was 
becoming lower over the hill. So he walked in that direction. When 
he came to view it, the grass was tramped down where they had 
struggled with his younger brother. Then, it seems, Wisa’ ka“ had 
painful feelings. And he gulped as if to weep. 
The manitous nearly came to the surface of the earth. ‘Well! 
Place yourselves (deeper) in the earth,’ the manitous were told by 
the manitous. “For you are challenging Wi'sa‘ki™*’,” they said to 
each other. 
Well, it seems as if he started to walk away. When he arrived 
at their grandmother’s, where were the people who were formerly 
there? Their dwelling was there alone. He started to enter. 
“Grandmother, where are the people who were formerly here?” he 
said to his little grandmother. ‘My grandchild, did you think they 
were people?’’ he was told by his little grandmother. ‘They are 
really manitous,” he was told by his little grandmother. “Oh yes, 
manitous,”’ he said to her. ‘Yes, they are manitous with whom 
we have been living,’ he was told. ‘Oh that’s it,’”’ he said to his 
little grandmother. 
Then it seems that he lay down. Suddenly early in the evening 
he heard some one about. ‘‘ Well! Who, pray, who is it that is come 
to play a trick on me when my little brother is slain?” he thought. 
Suddenly the next day when it was night he again thought he heard 
the sound of some one approaching. He heard him about very 
close by. On another day, the third day, he thought he was coming, 
arriving even closer to their door. ‘‘Who probably is it that is 
joking with me when I have a death (in my family)?” he thought. 
The fourth day at night one person came straight to their door. 
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