MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 583 
And soon in the spring—summer—a woman came to his mother. 
“This is why I have come,” she said. ‘‘We desire your child and 
my child to marry each other,” she said. ‘ This (son of mine) is not 
full-grown; in the fall he will be eighteen years old,” (the woman) 
was told. ‘‘ Well, after they have grown up,” she persisted. ‘‘ Well 
(if they choose) they may wait for each other to be fully grown. 
They must wait for each other. Why, this (son of mine) does not 
even think he is grown up,” (the woman) was told. 
And he himself hunted for (others) unconcernedly all summer. 
And in the fall he thought, “Well, eventually I shall do what my 
grandfather told me.” And he had raised corn so that he might fast." 
Now when it began to be cold he made his fasting instrument. He 
was eighteen years old. After it was dry he began fasting. He 
fasted earnestly for several days at atime. He prepared (everything) 
for himself. He made his body fast greatly. Always did he fast for 
five days without eating, all winter. In the spring when he painted 
himself for the last time he had used up (the fasting instrument) ; 
when, he had not eaten for four days at night he fetched mud and 
painted himself and lay down. As he slept he dreamed, ‘‘ Well, my 
grandchild, I bless you. You may eat. This is how you will be. 
Go and hide your stock from me any place,”’ he was told. He caught 
one. After he led it out of sight in a different direction he went and 
tied it in the middle of a forest. He came again into view from 
another direction. When he arrived there, he was told, ‘Now I 
shall look for him.” He went about holding a rattle; then he sat 
down comfortably. Then he covered his head. He covered himself 
thoroughly, made the gourd (rattle) resound, and began to sing. 
This is how he sang: 
“T see it all, I see it all, I see it all, 
This island, this island.”’ !° 
So he sang. In a little while he uncovered himself. “I shall 
fetch what you hid from me,” (the one blessed) was told. Sure 
enough the other brought (the horse). ‘‘ That is the way you will 
be, my grandchild. You will not fail to know where anything is if 
you desire to know it,” he was told. “You must make a gourd 
rattle so that you may use it for that purpose. I shall not fail to 
know if you desire to know (anything). That is how I bless you, 
namely, so you will be that way, my grandchild,” he was told. 
Then he awoke. He lay there thinking very attentively. “‘ Why 
my grandfather spoke very truly when he said to me, ‘you will know 
what is going to happen to you if you fast earnestly,’” he thought. 
18 The syntactical construction of the Fox sentence can not be reproduced without violence to English 
idiomatic usage. 
16 The conception of the earth as an island is a common Algonquian and Siouan idea. 
