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3. The moon the wolves run together. 



4. The moon the skin of the frotus of buffalo commences to color. 



5. The moon the hair gets thick on buffalo fcetus; called also " men's 

 mouth" or "hard mouth." 



G. The sore-eyed moon ; buffalo cows drop their calves. 



7. The moon the ducks come. 



8. The moon the grass commences to get green and some roots are 

 fit to be eaten. 



9. The moon the corn is planted. 



10. The moon the buffalo bulls are fat. 



11. The moon the buffalo cows are in season. 



12. The moon that the plums get red" (Glarl; 16). 



Klamath and Modolc. — Their months "do not coincide with the months 

 of our calendar, for they extend from one new moon to the next one, 

 and therefore should be more properly called moons or lunations. 

 Twelve and a half of them make up the year, and they are counted on 

 the fingers of both hands. The first moon of their year begins on the 

 first new moon after their return from the wokash harvest [about the 

 end of August], at Klamath Marsh, which is the time when all the pi'o- 

 visions and needful articles have been gathered in for the winter. They 

 have now generally discarded the former method of counting moons 

 upon fingers, and instead of it they reckon time by the seasons in which 

 natural products are harvested (Gatsvhet, 1). 



Bannocli. — They distinguish the earlier moons thus: First, " running 

 season for game;" second, "big moon;" third, "black smoke" (cold); 

 fourth, "bare spots along the trail" (i. e., no snow in ijlaces); fifth, 

 " little grass, or gi-ass first comes up." They have no names for moons 

 after the season gets warm [Glarl;, 17). 



