MICHELSON. ] THE GHOST-FEAST. 475 
Well, once during the next day the crier cried out. (The people) 
woke once and they started to rise to their feet. ‘‘We are ordered 
to go around and look where the game animals are and how the 
earth is.” He continued saying, ‘At the time when we have all 
eaten,” the crier continued saying. 
After they finished eating, our nephews got ready. ‘‘We are 
ordered,” (people) said among themselves as they came there. 
“Well, we are commanded from where the Great Manitou is to go 
about and look how the earth is and where the game animals stand,” 
they were told. ‘‘We are brothers and we shall journey in both 
directions together according to the age we are, for of us brothers 
one (set) of us are Ki'ckos and (the other) To‘kans.2. The To'kans 
shall go in the northern direction and you who are Ki‘ckés shall look 
around in the southern direction and see how the earth is and where 
the game animals stand,” it seems Wi'sa‘ka‘** (and they) were told. 
Then it seems as they went in both directions, as they were going 
along somewhere yonder, some unluckily continued to say on their 
way, “My moccasin-string is undone. Walk on ahead. I shall 
overtake you,’’ they were told. And again, some continued to say, 
“My legging-strap has slipped off. I shall stop to tie it carefully.’ 
At last, it is said, four were going along. Such is the report concern- 
ing our nephew. ‘“‘ What, pray, is the matter with these (people),”’ he 
thought: such is the report about (our nephew). Finally they were 
three going along. ‘“‘I shall not lose track of whatever they do this 
time,” it seems our nephew thought. His eyes became tired watch- 
ing, and as he moved his eyes a little this way, one disappeared. 
“What in the world is the matter with these persons,” it is said our 
nephew thought, ‘‘this time I shall watch just these two,’’ he prob- 
ably thought. As he did something out of the way one already had 
disappeared. Discouraged, it is said our nephew thought, “This 
time I shall not lose track of whatever he does.’’ Well, at the time 
when his eyes grew tired he ceased to know what (the other) did: 
such is the report about our nephew. After he had lost all of them, 
it seems our nephew thought, ‘‘ Well, though I am sent (on an errand) 
I shall go over and take a view yonder.’’ He went over yonder and 
departed as far as he could see. When he took a view yonder he 
again departed as far as he could see. And when he arrived yonder 
as he started to view this, again there was a distance as far as he saw. 
Yonder was the beginning of a cliff. ‘‘Oh, for the last time I shall go 
and take a view yonder,” it is said our nephew thought. When he 
arrived there, why there was again adistance. ‘Oh, this is the last 
2 To'kAnagki' is the ordinary word for O'cka‘cAg*i' among the Foxes. I haveanglicized the names of the 
two moieties. 
