MICHELSON.] BEGINNING OF STORY HOW ANY ONE DIES. 891 
Then, it seems, is when he was addressed, ““O my older brother, 
open it for me. I have really come, my older brother. But I can 
not open our door,” he was told. Wi'sa'ki‘“’ merely turned around 
where he lay. When his little brother spoke to him the fourth time, 
his nails were on (the door). ‘‘Come, open it for me,’’ he was told. 
‘The manitous of our time have truly set me free,’ he was told. 
“Because they know that you have felt very badly is why they 
release me,” he was told by his younger brother. 
At that time, it seems, Wi'sa‘kia‘** started to rise to his feet. He 
handed him their sacred pack, a rattle (gourd), a burning billet of 
wood, a flute, and their drum. ‘‘ Now, my younger brother, I shall 
not let you inside. (But you shall take) these our belongings toward 
where the sun sets. You shall live there with your aunts (mother’s 
sisters) and uncles (mother’s brothers) ,’’ he was told. “Should you 
think ‘I will sorrowfully lose our food, my younger brother, or if 
you should think ‘I will now cease smoking,’ my younger brother, 
these our aunts and uncles will continue to bring each other all 
kinds of food (and) for you. Always they will place Indian tobacco 
for each other, my younger brother. And you only shall have with 
it fivefold power and control over our aunts and uncles,” the cere- 
monial runner was told. ‘‘ But, my younger brother, for my sake you 
must take pity on those with whom I shall live here. They will be 
poor and will eat only that for which they hunt,’ * he was told. 
“And they will ask each other for life. So you will think of them 
for my sake, for we shall equally live with our aunts and uncles,” 
the ceremonial runner was told. ‘‘They will ask each other for all 
sorts of things, even blankets. And for my sake bless those with 
whom I shall live here when in warfare. That is the way it shall 
be, my younger brother,” he probably was told when he was handed 
out their possessions. “So do not look back at me. You must 
merely walk along with a quiet heart when you start to walk. You 
might make me poor by keeping on looking at me, my younger 
brother; you may walk away quietly, my younger brother. That, I 
suppose, is what our fellow-manitous desire of us,’’ he was told. 
“Now depart forever, my younger brother,’’ he said to his younger 
brother. 
“‘ Now in turn, my elder brother, I shall give you some information,” 
he was told. ‘Our aunts and uncles would have come back if you 
had opened (the door) for me. They would have come back in four 
days. Our aunts and uncles would have come to life in that time. 
You, my elder brother, are the cause of making our aunts and uncles 
wretched,” Wi'sa‘ki“* was told. 
“Too bad, my younger brother, I did not realize it as I already had 
wailed so bitterly over you, my younger brother. I did not even 
6 A very free rendition, but the exact sense of the passage. 
