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was the noise (it made) that Hare got frightened and ahnost ran out, 

 it is said. Then they freed him from the sad thoughts he had had 

 on earth and restored his spirits. 



Soon after that they took him to Earthmaker and (when) he had 

 come there (Earthmaker said), "Hare, your heart must have been 

 very sad. Indeed, for your uncles it was, that your heart felt sad. 

 Now that their lives may be benefited, a holy teaching you are to 

 take back to them. "Here, look at it," he said, and pointed to- 

 ward the south. There a long lodge stood (revealed). At this he 

 looked and there were old people with hair aU white. "Thus your 

 imcles and aunts will be. They will make very much noise (in 

 this ceremony). Now look down! Some help is to be given them. 

 Not one bad spirit will I put there. " Then he (Earthmaker) pointed 

 in that direction and said, "You are to go back there (to earth) 

 and put this (ceremony) before them. Not alone are you to do it, 

 but with the aid of your own friends, Foolish-One, Turtle, Bladder, 

 and He-who-wears-heads-as-earrings. " These he meant. "Your 

 grandmother (the earth) will help you and if one of your uncles and 

 aunts performs everything properly he will have more than one 

 life. I will always keep the door (through which he may return to 

 earth) open to him. When he becomes reincarnated he can live 

 wherever he wishes. He can return (to the earth) as a human being 

 or he can join the different bands of spirits, or finally he can become 

 (a being) below the earth." All tliis he (Earthmaker) did for us. 



Then Hare returned to the earth and to his grandmother. "What 

 .1 have tried to obtain for my uncles and aunts, that now I have 

 brought back with me." "Grandson, how was it possible for you to 

 make them immortal like ourselves? As the world was created, so 

 must it remain." "Grandmother, I say that my uncles will choose 

 their lives for themselves, and grandmother, you are to help me." 

 "All right, grandson, it is good," she said, thanking him. "When 

 the time comes, my friend the Foolish-One wiU come," he thought. 

 Then he struck his drum and started the songs. All of a sudden, 

 Foolish-One came in. "That you would come, my friend, I thought, 

 and thus you have come." " Indeed, my friend, I knew your thoughts 

 and, for that reason, I came." Then they went out together and 

 outside of the village they sat and discussed what they were to do. 

 This is what they were doing. All day they discussed on the out- 

 skirts of the village. When they came to the house they entered it 

 and sat down. "My friend Turtle will come," he (Hare) thought. 

 Then Turtle did come. "My friend. I knew you would come, and 

 for that reason, you have come." "Yes, indeed, your thought I 

 knew, and for that reason I have come." Soon Bladder came. He 

 (Hare) thought he would come and for that reason he came. Then 

 Hare centered his thoughts on He-who-wears-heads-as-earrings, and 

 he also came. 



