MICHELSON.] BEGINNING OF STORY HOW ANY ONE DIES, 401 
it is said, he fled on foot (literally, without anything). It is said 
that if he had been overtaken by Head-piercer, he would not have 
come back to life again. 
That is what that old man used to tell. ‘There are very many of 
them,’’ he used to say. I myself heard him tell it when I was a 
boy. It seems that he was dead for ten days. On exactly the tenth 
day he came back to life, exactly when he was brought here. That 
is what that old man used to tell. Only he was deprived of the 
horse (which had been given him) by Head-piercer. That is the story 
the old man who had been to the land of the ghosts used to tell. 
That is as far as I will tell about him, my friends. That is what 
happened to one man, my friend Wapinenu’s srs 
And this is what the dead are told after they hove been Jaid in the 
grave on the hill: 
‘‘Now you have lost sight of the green skies which hang above. 
It is, so be it, as it seems, as far as your life extends,so be it. She,” 
so be it, Mother-of-all-the- Earth, this our grandmother, will have you 
in her body, so be it. It is, so be it, as has been planned for us, so 
be it, by our nephews, so be it. And then you, so be it, will walk 
quietly, so be it, straight to (our nephew), so be it, as it has been 
planned far back for us here by our nephews, so be it. When you 
reach, so be it, our nephew, so be it, you will hand him the Indian 
tobacco, so be it. You are only, so be it, to speak to him for life, so 
be it, for them (those here). You are not, so be it, to look back, so be 
it, at those, so be it, whom you have left here, so be it, your relatives, 
so be it, so be it, so that you will not destroy them, so be it. So now 
you may quietly walk away to Aiyapa'ti*’, so be it, and ask that 
your relatives easily obtain blankets to wear in the future and attain 
anold age. They, so be it, promised each other, so be it, to bless their 
uncles (mother’s brothers), so be it, and aunts (mother’s sisters), so 
be it. So it can not be that he will not believe you, so be it, when 
you step up to our nephew, so be it. Now it seems, so be it, that 
all this green sky, so be it, which the manitou has hung (from above), 
is their sky, so be it. So you may quietly walk away, so be it.” 
That is how I heard one person speak who spoke to a dead (person). 
The dead are addressed in all sorts of ways, Wapinenu'sw**. That is 
how one person spoke. 
13 The word must bel so rendered despite the Indian text. 
