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Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' said, "Oh, grandmother, 

 do thou know that I must begin; now verily I will work at the works 

 which are for me to do." Then his grandmother said, "Verily in 

 the first place thou wUt make for thyself some place where thou shalt 

 continue to abide when thou dost begin thy work." Then De'hae"'- 

 hiyawa"kho°' answered, saying, "Certainly, of course, perhaps it 

 will so come to pass." At that time he went out. He went thither 

 to the other side of the island; there in that place he put up his 

 bark shelter. Now then he began his work. He made the grass. 

 The first thing was the sunflower which he planted there beside his 

 lodge, and then said, "That will continue to be a sign for the coming 

 uterine families when soon human beings will establish themselves 

 here on the earth." 



Then at that time he made another thing, and that was red willow, 

 and he said, "Here I have planted a medicine which then shall be 

 the eldest one of all those that shall continue to grow here on the 

 earth." 



At that time then he made another thing; that was the straw- 

 berry plant. And he said, "There then I have planted it on the 

 earth, which shall bear close to the surface of the ground what wiU 

 be called berries." 



Then at that time he made another thing. "A shrub," he said, 

 "I plant there on the earth, which shall be called thimbleberry, 

 and it will bear constantly what shall be called berry." 



Now again he said another thing, "I will plant here on the earth 

 what shall be called mulberry (long berry) and it will continue to 

 bear what shall be called berr,v." 



Now again he said another thing, "Now then again I plant here 

 on the earth that which shall be called huckleberry, and it will con- 

 tinue to bear what shall be called berry." 



Then at that time he said another thing, "I plant here on the 

 earth the apple, -" the large fruit as it shall be called, and it shall 

 continue to bear fruit." 



Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' said, "Now then I will 

 rest for awhile. Verily I shall prepare food. As soon as I am 

 through eating just then again I will begin again to do my unfinished 

 work." 



Then at that time he kindled a fire. Now then verily he spitted 

 his corn for roasting. Then the wind spread an appetizing odor. 

 Then at that time O'ha'a' was there out of doors going about where 

 stood their lodge. Now then verily he smelled the appetizing odor. 

 He learned that the wind was blowing from the direction where was 

 the bark shelter of De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'". 



See note on p. 609. 



