THE SINGING HAWK. 201 
_ There where a group of trees stands by the water, 
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There where the ponies slip down hill, 
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There at yonder hill, the girls’ hill, 
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There where the top of the hill is barren, 
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There by the earth-lodge at the foot of the hill, 
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There at the river banks by the swallows’ homes, 
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There by the thicket of cottonwood, 
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There where the white clay is found, 
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There where the sand reaches the foot of the hills, 
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There by the group of black islands, 
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There on the hills where human bones lie buried, 
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Now I climbed the hill and arrived at the top, 
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There where the stream of water separates, 
There on the island’s point, where stands a tree clump, 
Where once great herds of buffalo started from, 
There I stood. 
I stood surprised and rejoiced, 
I stood surprised and rejoiced, 
For there were the buffalo, like threads covering the earth. 
There they were, there they were. 
Thus in his song he told of the different places he had visited, how on 
climbing the hills he had found nothing but prairie. In the singing he 
mentions all the different places he visited and at last he comes to a place 
- near the village and there he found the buffalo. This is why the people 
sing this song upon their hunt, that they may find the buffalo near and 
not far away. 
