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| the entrance, and they were theerrand men. The Muskrat arose and said 
that he was going to leave it all to the Raccoon. The Raccoon arose 
_and called on the head medicine-men, but reminded them of his errands, 
his willingness to do their commands, and said: ‘‘This is a poor man. 
_I feel sorry for him. He stands there with a large belly like a woman. 
I ask you to cure him and make him well and to give him power to 
become a medicine-man.” All the animals said, ‘‘Nawa.” But they 
could not do anything for him until the other lodges had been notified. 
The four little men in the west commanded the man in the south to take 
this man to the animal lodge under Spring-Hill. The man in the south 
rose up, sat down in front of the unfortunate boy, and told him to get on 
his back and close his eyes. The boy closed his eyes and the animal flew 
up and out of the lodge towards the southwest. He flew for some time 
and then lighted on a high hill. He told the unfortunate boy to look, 
and when he looked he saw the same man who brought him there. After 
the man had rested, he sat down again and told the boy to get on his 
back. The boy obeyed and the animal flew again, and when he lighted 
he told the boy to open his eyes, and he did so. He was in the lodge of 
the animals and there the man sat among them as a Hawk. 
The Hawk spoke up and said that the animals from the other lodge 
had sent him there with the boy to ask the animals of this lodge to 
help him; that the two errand people had given their consent. ‘‘Very 
well,” they said, ‘‘we are willing to help this man, but we can not do 
it here.’’ At the entrance of the lodge was a Buzzard on the south 
side, and a Magpie on the north side. They were the errand men of 
this lodge. The animals left it with these two to decide whether they 
should help the boy. The Buzzard stepped up and said that he would 
leave it all with the Magpie. The Magpie felt sorry for the unfortunate 
boy, for he was very thin and had had nothing to eat all this time, and 
he was big in the belly. The medicine-men all said, ‘‘ Very well.” 
| They sent the Magpie to all the other animal lodges. The Magpie went 
to all the lodges and went to the lodge at Pahuk last, for there was the lodge 
that was really at the head of all the other lodges. The animals of that 
lodge told the Magpie that he must fly to the different lodges and invite 
some of the other animals to come to the lodge at Pahuk, for there the 
boy must be made well. They also instructed the Buzzard at the 
Spring-Hill lodge to carry the boy upon his back to the lodge at Pahuk. 
The Magpie flew up the stream and stopped at the different lodges, and 
at each lodge he said that the lodge at Pahuk had sent him to say 
that this lodge should send some of their animals to Pahuk, where they 
were to cure the boy. Each lodge that the Magpie visited selected its 
