MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 565 
were glad. ‘‘What, pray, does it matter if he is sick a long time,”’ 
they said among themselves, ‘‘if something really happened to him, 
we should be as badly off as possible, for we depend on him to always 
hunt,” they said among themselves. He was very sick for a long 
time. It was nearly a year when he was well. And he was not 
made to fast for four years. He merely always hunted for (others). 
That grandfather of his was still alive. That he himself might not 
be sick in case he fasted, was why he no longer was made to fast. 
Now when he was cured at the end of four years, in the fall he was 
told, ‘‘Well, my grandchild, eventually you must again begin to look 
after yourself; if you had finished you would not have suffered as 
you did. For you are now still a boy; now you are fourteen years 
old,” he was told by his grandfather. 
A fasting instrument was again made for him. It was a little 
longer. Then he again began to fast earnestly. He often fasted 
four days. Sometimes he fasted three days. In the harvest time 
they raised corn for his exclusive use, braided and dried it for him, 
and raised the proper foods for him to use in fasting (?) And they - 
cooked for him while he fasted. And in the spring he again used up 
the fasting instrument. And his grandfather again fetched mud 
and painted his body with it when he had fasted four days. As he 
slept he again dreamed, ‘‘Now, my grandchild, eat. I bless you. 
This day you are not safe killing each other when you rush out 
at each other. Look at me,” he was told. As he looked that way 
he did not see him. ‘‘Do you see me?’ he was told. ‘No,’ he 
said to him. ‘‘Look at me again,” he was told. And again he did 
not see him. ‘‘Even if you shot at me you would not hit me,” he 
was told. ‘‘Thatis the way you will be. You will never be shot,”’ 
he was told. ‘‘Do not ever think, ‘I may be shot.’7 Verily, I am 
called ‘shadow’,”’ he was told. 
Then he woke up. His grandfather again cooked for him. After 
he had eaten he again told him what he had dreamed. ‘‘ That is 
fine, my grandchild. You have gotten for yourself what is very 
dificult. Now you may begin to say to any of your friends, ‘I am 
fond of you.’ If in confidence they desire it (?), if they are in any 
way crippled, if they say to you, ‘you have been in the habit of 
saying to me, “‘My friend, I am fond of you;” come and get me,’ 
you will depart, you will start to walk so as to bring him on your 
back. You will please those related to him if he is saved. That is 
(why) I warn (?) you in advance, in case you help (any one) in the 
future, if by chance you are blessed, my grandchild,” he was told 
by his grandfather. ‘‘This is what boys are told when fighting is 
off their minds (?). Do not say to your friend, ‘I am fond of you.’ 
You will be fond of any one then. Verily a time will soon come 
7 A trifle free. 
