MICHBLSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 591 
front (of them) they must indeed kill it. It is simply like that. 
And you must sing. This is how I bless you to-day. You must help 
the people as long as they continue to remember it. For (this) will 
happen to the future generation as long as they do not forget you,” 
he was told. 
“Whenever any one of you is about to begin eating, you must say 
to him, ‘call out at the top of your voice.’ ‘This is what you must 
say, you must say to him, ‘‘au’, ‘au’, ‘au’, ‘au’.’ You may begin 
eating whenever you have done that,” he was told. ‘‘ Now that is as 
much as I shall tell you. I shall come to you again,” he was told. 
When he woke up it was almost morning. As soon as there was day- 
light he cooked corn meal for himself. He did not think of anything 
else; he went about always recalling what he had dreamed. His dream 
was incomplete. “I wonder when I shall dream again,” he thought 
all day. At night he lay down early (in the evening). This is what 
he was told as he thus slept, ‘I come again, my grandchild.”” He was 
addressed from above. ‘‘ You know thoroughly as far as I have told 
you. And you must dance whenever you shall make (the drum) 
resound. And if you make (the drum) resound somewhere you must 
dance on the way,” he was told. ‘This is how you (pl.) are to sing 
whenever you have completed your (sing.) plans, whenever you (sing.) 
have completed that drum,” he was told. ‘‘And you will have full 
control of when you will begin to do that. I shall not say to you, 
“begin doing this now.’ From there on you are surely the one who 
will have control of it. This is the first song: 
(Merely syllables.) 
(Merely syllables; a repetition of the above.) 
(Merely syllables.) 
(Merely syllables for the most part; ‘eat thou’ occurs a couple of times; 
‘yonder’ and variants of this occur a number of times.) 
(Merely syllables.) 
