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NOTES. 
208, 2. ja¢anqa, etc. ga¢i*-na"™paji also said, Inteai’ga uhi¢a-biama, the inteaiga 
(either ground-mice or field-mice) brought him up. 
209, 3. weg¢a"¢i". Sanssouci said that this meant, “He has forgotten everything.” 
The younger brother forgot the words that he wished to tell his father about his brother. 
210, 1. ¢iji¢e ti yi, ete. The father said to the son, “ If your brother comes again, 
get him to lie down, and pretend to hunt for lice. Steal a hair out of his head, and he 
cannot leave you.”—Sanssouci. 
210, 9. Pijr¢e amega® u¢akikiji. This was addressed to the son who had been 
brought up by the field-mice, and who is called “elder brother” by the other son. Yet 
that other son is here termed “ Your elder brother.” Perhaps we should read, Pisa’ ga, 
your younger brother. 
210, 15. pahi" ké imi i¢a-g%, Let the hair come back to me, the owner—ga¢imna"- 
paji. I2/i i¢a-gi is from “git i¢é,” to give an object back to the owner by sending it 
in this direction. 
210, 16. hindega” implies consent to go with the elder brother.—Sanssouci. 
211, 4. wiugibada"da®. The tails were fastened again to their respective snakes. 
211, 10. skewa*qti ga"-minke-hna™-ma®, ete. It is explained by the following, given 
by ga¢i®-na"paji., Cka™aji ag¢i’ yl jaga ké a®wat/-dindé’qti-ma™, jibe ke’ cti a™ badin/- 
Motionless Isit when body the me _ very rigid I have (?) leg the too me distended 
déqti ma”: “ When I sit motionless, my body becomes very rigid, my legs, too, are very 
very I have (1) 
much distended.” 
213, 6. zi-g¢ihe. Lion said that the fourth Thunder-bird was called (ia™ ba-gi-hna® 
(Sheet-lightning-is-always-coming-back), instead of Zi-g¢ihe. 
TRANSLATION. 
Once there was a man who dwelt in a lodge with his woman. The woman was 
pregnant. As he killed deer, they dwelt very happily. At length the husband feared 
some unseen danger. ‘Beware, when I leave you, lest you look at any one who comes. 
Sit with your back to him,” he said. At length the man departed. At length a per- 
son was approaching. “Really! she is sitting for me, her relation, without any one at 
all with her! I am always fortunate in searching for things.” The woman lay by the 
side of the door, and did not look at him. At length the husband was coming home 
from the hunt. The old man went homeward. The husband reached home. ‘ How 
was it?” said he. “It was thus as you said here. An old man came, but I did not look 
at him,” said she. ‘‘O my wife, be sure to do your best. Though he will surely come 
regularly, never look at him,” said he. The husband went hunting again. And it was 
so four times. At length the old man arrived. “I have come again, O first daughter 
of the household,” said he. She did not look at him. The husband was coming 
home again from the hunt. The old man went homeward again. ‘“ How was it?” said 
the husband. ‘The old man came again,” said she. “Be sure not to look at him,” 
said the husband. When the fourth time came, and the old man went homeward, the 
woman peeped. When she looked at him, behold, it was Two-faces that was moving 
along. The woman lay dead. “Ha! ha! I always do that to them,” said the old man. 
Having slit the stomach of the woman with a knife, the infants were twins; both 
were boys. Having wrapped one in a skin with the hair on, he laid it by the side of 
