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The next day he cooked for himself. From that time onward he 
again did as he had been told by his grandfather. He did not even 
think about women. When he saw the (girl) to whom he was 
betrothed he did not even look at her. He merely hunted for an 
entire year. In the harvest time when a gens festival was held he 
was sent to go about summoning (men) to smoke. He departed. 
He went about summoning them and entering wigwams. Where he 
entered some place one old man had many gourds (rattles) of all 
sorts of sizes. “What, pray, are you going to do with these?” he 
sald to him. “IJ merely planted these last year, that is why I have 
many of them. Those who do not have any usually come and ask 
me for some and then make (rattles) for themselves,” he was told. 
“Tf you desire (one) to-day you may look them all over (and select) 
any so that you may have a rattle,” he was told. ‘TI really desire 
one,” he said to him. “Look at them all,” he was told. He liked 
one of proper size and took it away (with him). When he arrived 
yonder he was seen with it by his uncle (mother’s brother). ‘‘ What, 
pray, are you doing with that? I did not know that you were in 
the habit of holding gens festivals,” he was told. “ You have sounded 
these (only) at gens festivals. Because you do so is why you think, 
‘you use (them) only whenever you hold a gens festival.’ (But) we 
continue to do as however we know (to be beneficial),’’ he said to 
his uncle. ‘If by chance you lose anything, you may ask me to look 
for it for you,” he said to his uncle, and he was not believed in. 
He was there slowly making (his rattle). As soon as he had made 
it, his uncle had made up his mind what he was going to do with 
him. Soon he tied one of his horses far off, tying him from place to 
place. He reported the distance he had sought him. He pretended 
he had been looking for him all day though in reality he himself had 
gone around tying him (in different places). The third day (the 
one blessed) was told by his uncle, ‘‘I have really lost my horse, 
and it is one that I prize highly. If you find it for me, you may 
have a buffalo robe which I prize for a blanket.” Just because he 
did not believe him was why he treated him so. (The one blessed) 
took up his rattle and sat down comfortably. ‘‘ Cover me,” he said 
to his uncle. Then he began to sound his rattle, and sang: 
“T see it all, I see it all, I see it all, 
“This island, this island.” 
So he sang. Why, it seemed as if he were of enormous size and 
saw everything plainly. He saw what his uncle had gone around 
and done, that in reality he had gone around tying his horse from 
place to place. In a short time he uncovered himself. “ You really 
did not lose him. He is tied exactly where you tied him. You went 
around and tied him yonder,” he said to that uncle of his. Then 
for the first time (his uncle) believed in him. 
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