MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 587 
Then he who formerly did not believe in his nephew told his 
friend. ‘‘He really knew exactly what I went around doing,” he 
said to his friend. And he likewise was skeptical. Soon the one 
who did not believe in (the one blessed) went hunting. And he shot 
and hit a raccoon which fell in the edge of the water there. (The 
raccoon) lit exactly on brushes. Then (the hunter) remembered the 
one in whom he did not believe. Then he pushed the (raccoon) 
deeper in the brushes (?). He came back yonder where his friend 
was and related: ‘By gad, I have strangely lost a raccoon. I shot 
and hit him, all right; I lost him where he fell into the water. I 
have surely searched him,” he said to his friend. “If you employ 
that fellow, you will see (the raccoon). He might know what has 
become of (the raccoon), he was told. Then they went thither. 
Then he whose nephew (the one blessed) was, said to him, ‘ Now 
take up your rattle. It is said that this person has lost his raccoon. 
You must look for it for him. It is said that he already killed it.’’ 
He picked up his rattle. Then he sat down comfortably, covered 
himself, and caused his rattle to sound, and began to sing: 
“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. ‘‘Gad, you 
are very bad. And you are (both) fully grown,” they were told, 
“this fellow did not lose his raccoon to-day. When it fell in the 
water it alit on brushes, he pushed it in deeper. It is there now, 
but a tortoise is eating it,’ he said. ‘Very likely you fooled me 
because you did not believe in me. You would have done rightly 
only if you had really lost something and had come to me. Now 
to-day it seems as if you were making sport of me fooling around 
here early in the morning,” they were told. Surely they were 
frightened by what he said. “It is not because of myself that I am 
like this. Because I obeyed my grandfather while he was alive 
when he said to me, ‘fast,’ is why I am what I am,’ those men were 
told. They bowed their heads. They were fully instructed by the 
boy and then they ceased their unbelief in him. From that time on 
they feared him. 
When it was nearly fall the one betrothed to him took unto herself 
a husband. He himself did not court anyone. “She probably was 
one of those bad ones,” he thought. ‘In the fall I will sincerely 
obey my grandfather for the last time,” he thought. He was then 
nineteen years old. “I must fast all the harder,” he thought. Then 
he went and cut off (a piece of wood) so that he would have a fasting 
instrument. (He fasted) earnestly for six days. Then he kept on 
hunting all the while even when it was cold. He did not even 
