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them, so here the Younger Brother repeoples his fatherland by burning up the Evil 
One and sowing the ashes. 
8. The use of Sni in the following phrases is peculiar: 
Tuwe tokeGéa kute yasi Sni, Why do you not tell some one else to shoot? 
Who different toshoot you not 
at command 
Tuwe kasta kiéi de Sni, Why do you not go with someone else? 
Who soever with him you go not 
In these two, Suni has the force of why not? 
Sung, ito wintka pahi unye Sni, Younger brother, come, we have not (yet) gathered 
Younger come egg to gather we two not 
brother go 
eggs. But this last implies a request, Come, let us gather eggs.—J. 0. D. 
P. 134, line 1. He, from han, to stand on end, as an inanimate object. See p. 7, 
§6, C— I Om Ds 
TRANSLATION. 
Once there was a people, the chief among whom had three beloved children, two 
boys and one girl. The eldest son married a wife and the younger brother lived with 
him. But the sister-in-law troubled her brother-in-law, ‘‘ Let us lie together,” often 
saying to him. But he always answered, ‘‘ How can I make my older brother 
ashamed, seeing he sets such store by me?” 
One day, when the woman had brought home some wood, she said, ‘* Brother- 
in-law, yonder are many prairie chickens; shoot one for me.” To which he replied, 
“No: Lam not a hunter; send some one else to shoot them.” But his brother said, 
“Shoot them for her.” So he took his arrows and shot one for her, and said, ‘* There 
it is, take it,” and so went away. After awhile the woman came home crying, and 
said to her husband, ** Your younger brother persists in troubling me. But when I 
tell you of it you do not believe me. See, this is what he has done to me,” and she 
showed him where she had seratched her thighs all over with the prairie chicken’s 
claws. 
Then he believed her, and said,.**Go call Uyktomi.”. And Uyktomi came. 
Then he said, ‘‘ Uyktomi, you take my younger brother to the Unvisited Island and 
leave him there, and you shall have my sister for your wife.” 
The young man came home and Unyktomi said to him, “ My younger brother, 
come, we will go and hunt eggs.” But he said, No, I can not. Go with some one 
else.” But the elder brother said, “* Go with him,” and he went with him. 
They entered a canoe and went to the island and gathered eggs. And when 
they had filled the canoe the young inan said, “ Let us go home.” And so they got 
into the boat. But Unktomi said, ‘‘ Brother, yonder are some nice ones, get them 
also.” The young man replied, “* No, we have now a great plenty.” But Unktomi 
was persistent, so the young man went and got the eggs. In the meantime Unktomi 
had turned the head of the canoe outward and was starting home. ‘ Halloo, Uyktomi, 
bring the canoe here,” he said. But Uyktomi answered back, ‘‘ What are you killing 
yourself about?” ‘ Halloo, bring it here,” he repeated, but he would not. Then he 
said, “‘ Unktomi, bring the canoe here; when we reach home you shall have my sister 
for your wife.” He replied, “That is what I am doing this for.” The young man 
continued to plead. Unktomi bade him eat his own dung, which he would willingly 
do if the canoe would come for him. Uyktomi laughed at him. Then the young man 
