SONGS OF SATJRE. 1^9 



186; 5J. This satiric carmen amoebwum is one of the longest pieces in the collec^- 

 tion and contains words of reprobation addressed by disappointed girls to their ad- 

 mirers. Sung in chorus by both sexes, with frequent dacapos after different tunes. 

 The suffix -ash repeats itself at the end of every line aud in kokuapkash. 



186 ; 55. This little iambic impro\isation is very aphoristically and indistinctly 

 worded, but is endowed with perhaps the prettiest tune of all songs in this collection. 

 It is an apostrophe of a newly married wife to her husband, seeing herself deprived 

 even of the most common comfort, a small tauued fur-skin, to repose on and to avoid 

 the dampness of the bare soil. 



186 ; 56. A lover is taunted on account of his predilection for the white man's 

 habits. The Modocs say this is a song of the Klamath Lakes. 



186; 58. Admits of no literal translation. 



SONGS OF SATIRE. 

 I. 



1. Kdtchkal ii'yank ammyamna -!-^|^^j^^i-L^ 



He goes around giving away sticks of tobacco, and is very noisy about it. 



2. Get geno'la tsidlash patso'k Yamaki'shamkshi 



This man has started out to feed on salmon among the northern Indians. 



3. Tu'sh hu wikd ndnu sh^sha wafwash tchilamnii ? 



Where is it, that close by on a hill waiwash-geese are crowding together? 



4. G^-u kdni vu'lkashti wAtch hushdtchipkal -_^|_-^|^^|,^| 



Who rides up to me on my horse, borrowed of lue ? 



5. Tidshd k6katk i sb^wa, hashudtan' J! ^--i|-_^|_^_L|_^ 



You think yon are finely dressed; thru mlud your own dress! 



a. Vu'lkashti kili'wash shkiitatk ii'hlutuina 



He dresses in a borrowed woodpecker-blankr t ami trails it along on the gronnd. 



7. K4 tal hH'k mil sh^taluatk? .i _ | _l _ | ^ _ _ 

 Ke' lish tok wal;^dtchkatko gtlli -!.^|-^~|-'~_|-^ 



Who is he, the alleged wealthy man ? 



She has entered the house of a poorly dressed hnsband. 



8. Lelah()witko watch \vu;^6yi -i -l-i |-!._|_!.^ 



Slow-nmniug horses he paid for his wife. 



