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THE GHOST-FEAST. 
Well, whoever of us it may be, when we think over this our food 
we do not like it. And so (the person) did a good turn to the dead 
when he placed tobacco for him in the fire, when he placed it for him 
with (food), and placed all this food of different sort for him,' and 
placed this water for him. He placed tobacco for him in the rear. 
And so it seems, so be it, that the first mortal, so be it, would not 
learn anything from merely having a well-filled belly. The one who 
acted as a hero (?) toward this Spirit of Fire, he was the one to con- 
tinue to learn something. Oh, he got his knowledge from fasting. 
Yonder, it seems, after he plainly nearly starved his body so that 
he stumbled, he was blessed by our nephew (Wr'sa‘ki'*’). He was 
told by him, it seems, what happened to their lives. He was 
informed, it seems, how he (our nephew) had been treated by his 
fellow manitous. 
It was probably where they were living with their grandmother. 
Now at one time her grandchildren were away. Then, it seems, they 
(the manitous) came and summoned the old woman in that long 
wickiup. Now as she started to come in there, the manitous were 
closely (packed) in a row with their knees touching. They looked 
like human beings to her. ‘Well, this is why we, these people, 
summon you,” the old woman was probably told, ‘‘ that one of these 
grandchildren of yours shall cease existing as a mortal is what these 
(people) who sit piled in a row have decided, so that their own life 
will not cease, as they think. And so they have come to a decision 
that one of your grandsons shall cease to live, this one, the bigger 
one, is the one they selected to end his life,’ the old woman was told. 
Then it seems (they were told): ‘Oh, you will not be able to kill 
my grandson. I think my grandson has already made his plans. 
Yet you probably could kill the smaller one; of the ones you wish to 
lull, he, the runner, is the one you could kill. And my grandson will 
not fail to know that you summoned me to-day.” 
“There is room here,’ she was told. ‘“‘ Well, let it be here,’’ she 
said, kneeling on the ground beside the door. 
1A free rendition, but it is the sense of the passage. ~ 
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