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The mind of Hahyonhwatha was troubled. His colleagues and the 

 people assembled at his home and condoled with him and admon- 

 ished him to forg-et his sorrow, and he acceded to their desire. 



Shortly afterwards the second daughter took sick and in a short 

 time died. Then the sorrow and trouble of the Lord Hahyonhwatha 

 was greatly increased, and again his colleagues and people assembled 

 at his abode and again they tried to induce him to forget his sorrow 

 and trouble, but he could not answer them. So Deharihoken said: 

 " I will not tell you my mind (my purpose). I think that we should 

 look for something which would console the mind of our lord in 

 his trouble and bereavement." Then he also said: "I would lay 

 before you warriors, for your consideration, that you cheer him by 

 playing a game of lacrosse." ^ 



Then Sadekarihwadeh said : " I will now tell you my mind, first 

 let the people all assemble to console him. This shall be done as 

 alas our lord has now only one daughter left alive." 



Then Dekarihoken confirmed all that Sadekarihwadeh had said. 



Then the people assembled at the home of the Lord Hahyonh- 

 watha and they spoke unto him words of condolence that he might 

 forget his grief and bereavement. 



But the lord did not answer them. So then the warriors decided 

 that they would play a game of lacrosse in order to cheer him and 

 during the time that they were playing, the last daughter of 

 Hahyonhwatha came out of the family abode to go after some 

 water and when she had gone half way to the spring she saw flying 

 high up in the air above a beautiful bird.^ She paused in her 

 journey and the bird flew downwards toward her. She cried out 

 aloud, being frightened, and said, " O, see this bird ! " after which 

 she ran away. 



Then the warriors saw it and as it was then flying low, the 

 warriors .followed it, and as they were looking at the bird they did 

 not notice the daughter of Hahyonhwatha before them and in 

 their haste they ran over and trampled her to death, and it tran- 

 spired that the daughter of Hahyonhwatha was with child. 



Then Sadekarihwadeh went and told Hahyonhwatha that a 

 strange bird called Teh-yoh-ronh-yoh-ron (a high flying bird which 



of a screech owl and conjured from a tree overlooking the daughters' lodge ; 

 another that he became a poison shadow at the bottom of a spring. 



1 Each game had a reputed medicinal effect. 



- This was the magic Ha'goks, sometimes called " the wampum eagle." An- 

 other descriptive name is given later in the text. 



