MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 567 
when the people will wail in anguish, at the time when war comes to 
them. At that time sometimes one’s friends stand in the midst 
(of the battle) and are crippled (from wounds). At that time 
people are shouted to when their friends are there in agony: ‘my 
friend, come and get me. ‘‘I am fond of you,” you used to say to 
me. I am not (fatally) wounded, I might get well,’ they are told 
ordinarily. (Their friends) there speak piteously in such a fashion. 
Yet it is quite impossible for them to get them. They would be 
shot at from all sides. Some usually, indeed, decide to go where 
their friends are wailing. When they arrive there they are shot at 
from all directions. Some one then is ordinarily crippled just for 
nothing. And he does not live throughout battle (i. e., till it is over), 
so they can come and move him. After his friends cease to think of 
each other, he is slain, my grandchild. If this (blessing which you 
have received) is really so, then the people will depend upon you,” 
he was told by his grandfather. 
And again he merely kept on hunting for a whole year. And he 
was ever instructed by his grandfather what he should do in the 
future, and he believed him. He surely had mastery over the game 
animals. When anyone wished to celebrate a gens festival they 
brought clothing and employed him to hunt. He would ask what 
kind of game animals he should slay. He slew those which were 
designated for him (to furnish). When deer were named, he merely 
went and did the killing, as he could not bring it in. And in the case 
of buffaloes, he would merely tell those who employed him where he 
lulled them, and they fetched them. And he never had to go far 
off (to get the game). 
And his grandfather was getting to be a very old man. In the fall 
he was unable to make him a fasting instrument. “Simply make it 
for yourself, my grandchild. Do your best; do what I tell you,” he 
was told. ‘‘ For now you are old enough not to forget what you have 
been told. You already know what I formerly did to you when you 
were fasting. You must do precisely so, my grandchild. And now 
when you are fifteen years old you have obtained knowledge of your- 
self as you sought; more shall happen to you,” he was told by his 
grandfather. Then he went and cut off his fasting instrument, made 
and dried it. After he dried it he again began fasting earnestly. 
And he himself cooked his own meals while he fasted. Only he was 
handed by his grandfather the proper amount of corn and corn meal 
to boil. ‘‘Watch me carefully and catch on to the exact amount I 
have handed you here, my grandchild. Eventually perhaps I am on 
the point of leaving you,” he was told by his grandfather. “It will 
* This sentence is rendered rather freely, as in this particular case Fox and English idiomatic usages 
differ widely. The grammatical analysis of the Fox sentence presents no difficulties. 
