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(crops) do you have coming up?" "Yes, here are our things coming 

 up." Thus he said. He was going around looking after wild grasses. 



He said to them, "Well, now, let us go." They went toward the 

 west, the two leading. There the people were sitting close together. 

 They questioned one another. Thus they said, "Well, now, you two, 

 speak. I think there is something to say. It will not be too long a 

 talk. If you let us Icnow that we shall always remember it." "That 

 is so, that is so," they said. "Yes, indeed, it is true. There above is 

 our father. Sun. No one ever gives him prayer sticks; no one ever 

 gives him sacred meal; no one ever gives him shells. Because it is 

 thus we have come to you, in order that you may go out standing 

 yonder into the daj^light of your sun father. Now you will say 

 which way (you decide)." Thus the two said. "Hayi! Yes, indeed. 

 Because it is thus you have passed us on our roads. Now that you 

 have passed us on our roads here where we stay miserably, far be 

 it from us to speak against it. We can not see one another. Here 

 inside where we just trample on one another, where we just spit on 

 one another, where we just urinate on one another, where we just 

 befoul one another, where we just follow one another about, you 

 have passed us on our roads. None of us can speak against it. But 

 rather, as the priest of the north says, so let it be. Now you two 

 call him." Thus they said to the two, and they came up close toward 

 the north side 



They met the north priest on his road. "You have come," he said. 

 "Yes, we have come. How have you lived these many days?" 

 "Here where I hve happily you have passed me on my road. Sit 

 dowTi." When they were seated he questioned them. "Now speak. 

 I think there is something to say. It will not be too long a talk. 

 So now, that you will let me know." "Yes, indeed, it is so. In 

 order that you may go out standing there into the daylight of your 

 sun father we have passed you on your road. However you say, so 

 shall it be." "Yes, indeed, now that you have passed us on our 

 road here where we Uve thus wretchedly, far be it from me to talk 

 against it. Now that you have come to us here inside where we just 

 trample on one another, where we just spit on one another, where we 

 just urinate on one another, where we just befoul one another, where 

 we just foUowone another about, how should I speak against it? "so 

 he said. Then they arose. They came back. Coming to the village 

 where they were sitting in the middle place, there they questioned one 

 another. "Yes, even now we have met on our roads. Indeed there 

 is something to say; it will not be too long a talk. When you let me 

 know that, I shall always remember it," thus they said to one another. 

 When they had spoken thus, "Yes, indeed. In order that you may 

 go out standing into the daylight of your sun father, we have passed 

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