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substances, receiving from his nephew in each instance a negative 

 answer. Finallj', he asked, in an attempt to throw the 3^outh off 

 of his guard, " Oh, my nephew ! what can you mean ? What is it 

 you desire?" But the youth, alert and crafty, replied, "Pshaw! 

 are you not seeking to divine the ' word of my dream,' and still 

 you want me to give you a clue to it?" The old man replied, 

 " But I have now named all the things that I own." He kept 

 walking up and down in his own part of the lodge. Again the 

 time was nearly up — it was almost midday. So the old man said. 

 "Well, so be it; perhaps you may mean in your desire, suggested 

 by the ' word of the dream,' my leggings? " His nephew answered, 

 " No : that is not what is desired." Once more the uncle suggested, 

 " My breechclout ? " The nephew answered as before, " No ; that 

 is not what is desired." Then the old man, seeking to gain time, 

 remarked, " I am wondering. Oh, my nephew ! what it is that you 

 desire ? " 



Then the nephew, becoming wearied with the dilatoi-y tactics of 

 his uncle, began to sing, as before, ^'■Yu'^herl, yu'^hefi, he and I are 

 bartering by exchange; yu'^hen, yu'^hen, S^ho(/o''"gwffs yu'^hen, 

 yu'^hen. he is my uncle, yu"'hen. yu'^hen." Again the flames burst 

 up out of the ground all around the place where the uncle was stand- 

 ing, with the sound dautV. Thereupon the old man exclaimed, " Oh, 

 my nephew ! do not be too hasty with that thing." As the time had 

 not yet fully arrived to end this test, the youth willed that the 

 . flames subside, and with the sound dautV they quickly subsided. 



Then the old man resumed his questions, saying " Perhaps you may 

 mean in your desire, suggested by the ' word of the dream,' my otter- 

 skin robe? " The nephew replied, " No; that is not what is desired." 

 Next the old man named " my bow and arrows, which I so dearly 

 prize? " 



The nephew, Gadjis'dodo', was walking to and fro in his own 

 part of the lodge, looking every now and then to see whether the 

 sun had reached the meridian, for he knew well that the time was 

 almost up. Finally, to test the endurance of the old man, he again 

 began to sing, using the words of the song for this kind of a cere- 

 mony: "I'w"AeH, yu'^hen, he and I are bartering by exchange; 

 yu"'hen, yu"'hen, S^ ho go"''g tuffs yu'^hen, yu"'hen^ and he is my uncle, 

 yu''hcn. yu"'hen.'''' 



With a loud daun'' the flames again burst forth from the ground 

 all around the old man, who now climbed up the bark wall of the 

 lodge to escape them, at the same time crying out, " Oh, my nephew ! 

 do not be too hasty with that thing." Knowing his mastery of the 

 old man. the youth willed once more that the flames should subside, 

 and they did so. Whereupon the old man descended from his place 

 of refuge on the bark wall. 



