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the old ones (Ka'yemashi) heard the shells of the Duck tinkling, forth 

 they came, bringing tlieir litter and singing boisterously, for much they 

 loved K'yak'lu as the light of the rising sun fell upon him, as a raveu 

 loves bright shells or chijis of glistening stone. 



THE INSTRUCTION OF THE KA'YEMASHI BY K'YAK'LU. 



And when they had come to the side of K'yak'lu, instant they became 

 grave, for he bade them hearken to the words of the gods, and their 

 instructions. 



"Ye shall attend me, for know tliat ye are to be the guardians of the 

 Ka'ka and tellers of itc meanings, and givers of enjoyment to the 

 children of men, even at, ;;'e gave the enjoyment of comfort unto me, 

 when ye sought me in the plain of my sorrows. Ye shall bear me to 

 the people yonder, for I have tidings for them, and instructions the 

 to which ye shall bear witness in aftertimes when I am not by. Ye 

 shall cherish the Ka'kii: yea, and all other precious customs, for there- 

 unto as unto life mortal, yet unceasing, became fltted thy father, my 

 brother younger; and thereunto were ye born, ye and thy sister elder, 

 man-woman of the Ka'ka, as unto the councils thereof am I become 

 slave yet master. But my sister, thy mother, shall abide by the place 

 she hath made, maintaining it, as woman ever maintaiueth the hearth 

 she hath made, all the days of men." 



HOW THE KA'YEMASHI BORE K'YAK'LU TO HIS PEOPLE. 



This said K'yak'lu as he sat him down on the litter, and obediently 

 the Ka'yemashi lifted it upon their shoulders and bore it away, along 

 the trail eastward, down which westward we go after death and fulfil- 

 ment. And as they journeyed through the plain, calling loudly to one 

 another, the little people of the Marmot villages ran out and stood up, 

 looking at them and calling to one another, which so amused and 

 pleased the Ka'yemiishi that they became proud of their master and 

 uncle, K'yak'lu, and sang all the way thereafter of the audience they 

 had at every prairie-dog village, of Marmot youths and Marmot maidens ; 

 and thus they were singing gleefully as they neared the camp of the 

 people, insomuch that none were frightened, but all wondered who were 

 those pleasant, strange j)eople coming, and what one of precious con- 

 sideration guided of the far -journeying Duck they were bearing aloft 

 on their litter. Thus, ever since, they sing, as they bring in K'yak'lu 

 from the western plain, along the river-trail of the dead, and thus 

 happily and expectantly we await their coming, our little ones wonder- 

 iugly as did the first men of those days. 



THE RETURN OF K'YAK'LU, AND HIS SACRED INSTRUCTIONS TO 



THE PEOPLE. 



Speedily the fathers of the people recognized their lost K'yak'lu (led 

 and prompted as they were of the Twain), and preciously they housed 



