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bad-furred one, alone am saved!” 
name for the otter.—s. R. R. 
In the Omaha myth of “The Brothers, Sister, and the Red Bird” (Contr. N. A. 
Eth., v1, Pt. 1, pp. 219-226), the youngest brother finds a sister in the manner described 
in the Dakota myth. In the myth of “ Ietinike, the Brothers, and Sister” (Contr. N. 
A. Eth., v1, Pt. 1, pp. 79-85), the youngest brother finds the sister who had been 
carried underground by an elk.—J. 0. D. 
Hepay, which means the second son, is the sacred 
TRANSLATION. 
Behold, thus it was: There were four young men and one who was called Hakay- 
kayna. These lived together. And so it was that when they went hunting they made 
the youngest one the keeper of the house, aud said to him, ‘My youngest brother, 
don’t go anywhere, stay at home.” Saying this they went to hunt, and he watched 
the house. Now the house they lived in was a very long one, but all around the inside 
the packs were piled up on each other, and also there were scaffolds on the outside, 
for every day they brought home all kinds of wild animals, and so they had a great 
abundance of meat. 
And so, on a time, they went out to hunt and Hakaykayna watched the house, 
but when he was lonesome he went out to cut arrow sticks, and when something 
pierced his foot that it was very sore he started home. When he reached the house 
he opened the sore place, and, lo! he took out a girl baby. 
And on account of this Hakaykayna, sad of heart, wrapped a blanket around it 
and laid it back and so was silent. “Oh that it might grow up!” he thought, and so 
was sad of heart until all his brothers came home from the hunt. He had always 
been glad when they came home, but it was not sonow. They judged something had 
made him sad, and so they said to him, ‘‘ My brother, what makes you sad of heart? 
If anyone has done anything to you, tellus.” But he said, ** No one has done anything 
to me, but I have seen what makes me heart-sore and silent.” And they said, ‘What 
isit?” And he said, “Brothers, when you went away I was lonesome and went out 
to cut arrow sticks, and something stabbed my foot and it was very sore, so that I 
came home. When I reached home and took it out, it was a baby that I pulled out; 
and it was a girl baby, perhaps. ‘Oh, that it might grow up!’ I thought, and on that 
account [ am heart-sore.” 
And his brothers said, ‘Where is it?” So he took it up and showed it to them, 
and they passed it from one to another, and said, “Oh, that it might grow up!” Then 
Hakaykayna said, ‘‘My brothers, come, let us whirl it around the house.” So they 
took it up and threw it out of the roof hole and it whirled around and fell down. But 
now it was a creeping baby and came in crying. Again they took it up and whirled 
it as before, and then she came in walking, a little girl. But again they took her up 
and threw her, and she came in a girl bringing sticks of wood, which she placed on the 
fire. But again they took her up ard threw her as before. This was the fourth time 
they whirled her, and then she came with a back-load of wood. She untied the strap 
and came in the house and sat down. 
Then they asked, “What relation shall she be to us?” And one said, ‘My 
youngest brother found her, let him take her for his wife.” But Hakaykayna said, 
“No, that shall not be so.” And they said, ‘“* What then shall be her relation to us?” 
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