MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. aye 
grandchild, I shall give instructions to you for the last time. For 
now for a long time I have kept on telling you enough, and now you 
are nearly grown. In the fall you will be sixteen years old. I desire 
that you keep on fasting until you fast two (years) for the last time. 
Do not get too near women. Young women might spoil you if they 
are menstruating: try hard to keep away from women. You must 
not begin to go after them till you are full-grown (7). The (woman) 
of whom you may think, ‘this one perhaps is well-behaved,’ is the one 
you should go with. Do not (go) with merely any women. For I 
have long ago instructed you as to what bad (women) do and why 
we are not to marry them. And at the time you have married do 
not go about bothering with other (women). Those who do so, do 
not do what is right. And some keep on marrying women for a very 
short time. (These) do not live long. And soon when they marry 
women somewhere for a long time when they have children these die 
before they are grown up. There are many who know the evil 
medicine, mostly young women. And when (men) marry for a short 
time these women are killed by (those who know the evil medicine), 
as they hate them because they did not marry them. And (these 
women) are the ones by whom (the men) are slain one by one; that 
is why they do not live long. Those who do this are taken by the 
evil manitou when they die, and later on when a fine earth is remade 
those who do this will not be made to stand (i. e., live again). 
“And they especially warn us about this one thing, not to steal 
anything. When one is in the habit of stealing anything, he will 
never have much of anything as long as he lives; in one spot he con- 
tinues during this time to be in want. For there is no privacy any- 
where. No matter if he hides, thinking, ‘no one sees me,’ yet some 
one really sees us, the one who made everything, the one who made 
us. He does not intend us to do so (i. e., steal). He must have 
told those he first created what was going to happen to them, namely, 
that those who behaved well will live again at the time he remakes 
(the earth) for those who live on it, so he must have told those who 
lived uprightly and carefully. And (he must have told) those who 
continued not doing rightly that the evil manitou would control 
them, and that he would make them suffer. Because they were 
wicked is why he, it seems, controls them. So stealing is a bad 
thing. One who is not in the habit of stealing easily continues to 
get (property) so that it will be his own. 
“And, furthermore, do not go around mocking any one. Even if 
he (she) blackguards you, do not anything of the sort to him (her). 
It will not hurt you, so we are told. And he (who made us) will 
also give you life if you do not say anything in response to any one. 
® Translated rather freely. 
