MICHELSON.] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 581 
on, but not now,” he was told. ‘‘ You have barely started dancing,” 
he was told. ‘You will at least dance several days,’”’ he was told. 
He was very unwilling, for he of course was not present when the 
people had festivities as he did not enjoy it and merely went there 
in spite of it. 
After several days in the evening while he was dancing he said to 
his niece, ‘‘Hand that to me; you are to have as your own (the 
wampum string) which you wear across your shoulder,” and he 
started to take away that red-paint-tool. The scalp continued 
hanging there. Then he leaned (the red-paint-tool) against an oak 
tree. He made the dancers very sorry, for they had not had enough 
of it. He himself did not care to dance. 
He remembered his grandfather. “Now that I have no grand- 
father I have begun to dance without heed,” he thought. ‘I have 
done wrong to him by not obeying him when he said, ‘you must 
fast earnestly,’”’ he thought. ‘‘ But now it is too late. For it was 
long before this when I began to fast earnestly while he was alive,” 
he thought. “That is why I have gone about doing what I have 
done, and this day I continue to do things. Surely that Sioux would 
have killed me if I had not been in the habit of fasting. Of a verity 
my grandfather told the truth when he said to me, ‘fast: you will 
prepare yourself for the future.’ I shall again do what he told me 
in the winter, I shall fast,” he thought. 
Then he merely kept hunting. He saw his fellow Indians, those 
who had been with him but were no longer,!* moving. They had 
just camped. “Why, you have come,” those with whom they 
camped were told. ‘‘A long time ago,’’ they were told. ‘Why 
that is as long as we were when moving here,” they said. “‘ Where 
did you begin your flight toward here?” those who arrived last were 
asked. They specified exactly when. My, it was far off and a 
great distance to there. ‘“‘Why, that boy must be a very fast run- 
ner,’ they said among themselves. “‘He could not have been 
absent several days,” those who camped with him were told. ‘ Not 
a bit of it,” they said among themselves. Then for the first time 
that boy was known to be a good runner. And then he began to 
be employed in going very far off and telling the news, (for example) 
when anyone died. He went and told (people) even those who 
lived far off. Surely he never lacked anything. He was given 
horses. Sometimes he had many of them. 
Right away he always thought (this) of his grandfather: ‘ That is 
why I am (what Iam). My grandfather really told me about this. 
This day I am never in need of clothing when I am sent to hunt for 
(any one); I am continually given something,” he thought. 
18 Free rendition. 
1s The force of the Fox demonstrative pronoun employed. 
