92 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
But he said, “I am journeying; my friend here will marry them,” and so he gave them 
both to him. Then in the middle of the camp they put up a tent, and the young man 
with his grandmother and the two young women were brought to it. 
Then the young man—the Star-born—proceeded on his journey, they say. And 
again he found a young man standing without where they were shooting through a 
hoop. And so, saying he would look on with his friend, he went and stood by him. 
Then he said, “My friend, let us go home,” and so he went with him to his tepee. 
“Grandmother, | have brought my friend home with me,” he said, ‘hunt up some- 
thing for him to eat.” But the grandmother replied, ‘‘ How shall I do as you say?” 
“Tow is it?” he said. ‘This people are perishing for wood; when any one goes for 
wood he never comes home again,” was the reply. 
Then he said, “ My friend, take the packing strap; we will go for wood.” But the 
old woman protested, “This one my grandchild I have raised with difficulty.” But, 
“Old woman, what you are afraid of are trifles,” he said, and went with the young 
man. “Tam going to bring wood,” he said; “if any of you wish to go, come along.” 
“The young man who came from somewhere says this,” they said, and so fol- 
lowed after him. 
They had now reached the wood, and they found it tied up in bundles, which he 
had the people carry home, but he himself stood and said, “* You who have killed every 
one who came to this wood, whatever you are, whither have you gone?” Then sud- 
denly where he went was not manifest. And Jo! a tent, and init were young men and 
young women; some were eating and some were alive waiting. He said to them, 
‘How came you here?” And they answered, ‘What do you mean? We came for 
wood and something brought us home. Now, you also are lost.” 
He looked behind him, and lo! there was a hole; and, ‘* What is this?” he said. 
“Stop,” they said, “that is the thing itself.” He drew out an arrow and transfixed it. 
Then suddenly it opened out, and it was the ear of an owl that had thus shut them up. 
When it was killed it opened out. Then he said, * Young men and young women, come 
out,” and with them he came home. 
Then again they gave him two maidens; but he said again, ‘‘My friend will 
marry them.” And so the young man with his grandmother and the two women were 
placed in a tent in the middle of the camp. 
And now again he proceeded on his journey. And he came to the dwelling place 
of a people, and again he found them ‘*‘shooting the hoop.” And there stood a young 
man looking on, to whom he joined himself as special friend.- While they stood 
together he said, “Friend, let us go to your home,” and so he went with him to his 
tent. Then the young man said, ‘*‘Grandmother, I have brought my friend home with 
me; get him something to eat.” For this young man also had been raised by his 
grandmother. She says, ‘Where shall I get it from, that you say that?” “Grand- 
mother, how is it that you say so?” interposed the stranger. To which she replied, 
“Waziya! treats this people very badly; when they go out and kill buffalo he takes it 
all, and now they are starving to death.” 
‘The weather spirit, a mythical giant, who caused cold weather, blizzards, etc. 
See Amer. Anthropologist for April, 1889, p. 155. Waziya resembles a giant slain by the Rab- 
bit, according to Omaha mythology. (See Contr. N. A. Ethn., vi, pt 1, 22, 25.)—vs. 0. D. 
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