MICHELSON. ] THE GHOST-FEAST. 481 
me so that you will take it away from me. And as this our grand- 
mother (the earth) continues to change the appearance of her body 
(i. e., seasons), when the earth is green, then you will think of me, 
my younger brother,” it seems he said to his younger brother. ‘And 
if you think, ‘what, pray, shall I eat,’ it will be better for you that 
way; your uncles and aunts shall continue to bring things to you,” 
he said to him. ‘But I shall have a hard time here,” it seems he 
said to him. ‘‘What they ask of each other when they bring things 
to you, they will tell you; bless them that way for my sake. Do 
not merely be pleased with the tobacco and water.’’ Such is report 
concerning the brothers. 
Then it seems he was spoken to for the last time by his younger 
brother. ‘Oh ho, why are you so hard on our aunts and our uncles ? 
This is what would have happened to them: on the fourth day they 
would have come back, if you had opened (the door) for me, they 
would have come back to life,” it seems he was told by his younger 
brother. ‘Well, my younger brother, I did not stop to think, that 
is why I did not know as I felt so downcast in heart when I lost sight 
of you.” 
And we this very last generation of mortals, as many of us as are 
remembered (to be invited to the feast), we receive and eat this for 
them, likewise we shall fill ourselves with it so that we may reach 
an old age while mortals.* And so those remembered should stand 
together at the time they speak to (the dead) and when they ask 
(help) from him. They strongly advise him: “Whatever your elder 
brother said to you when he spoke to you, think of us that way so 
that we may both be in better health as result of this, and that we 
may wake up (as we should) as many of us as you bless so that we 
who are remembered may pick it out for you,’’? such is the speech 
they are accustomed to make. That is as far as I remember, all my 
relatives. This, it seems, is what the first mortals did long ago, 
(and it has continued) from then on. Generation after generation 
told each other so that it would not look as if they merely ate for 
the sake of eating. That is as far as the ghost-feast goes. 
6 Free rendition. 7 Meaning not clear. 
