160 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
You have said there were dogwood sticks ready cut for use in 
making a cradle for the child. 
You have said there was dyed hair to cover over the head, and 
beading for the cradle. 
You have said there was a tanned otter skin for use to wrap 
the child on the cradle. 
You have said there were long bone beads to put under the feet, 
to hold the feet of the child. 
Then, before leaving him, she sang to him this song: 
“T-ti-sesh-1-heé-he 
I-ti-sesh-i-heé-he 
Ne-ti-kit-i-hé 
I-ti-sesh-i-heé-he. 
“Tt-sezh-e-hé-he 
It-sezh-e-hé-he 
Hi-da-zesh-si-a-wé 
It-sezh-e-hé-he. 
“Tt-sezh-e-hé-he 
It-sezh-e-hé-he 
Hi-da-zesh-si-a-wé 
It-sezh-e-hé-he.” 
Let me give a feather to my husband! 
Give a feather to your wife’s first husband! 
Give a feather to your father! 
Each time she sang this song there would come down a feather, 
and it would land on the ground. Each of the three Eagles gave three 
feathers to the young man, then they left him and went off, flying 
towards the east. Young-Boy-Chief took the feathers and went on 
home. When he arrived home he found everybody had left the village, 
and no trail of them was to be seen. Then he went to a river and turned 
into an Otter (Kitish). Before Young-Boy-Chief turned into an Otter 
he took the feathers and pitched them into some brush that arrows are 
made of, commanding that the feathers be used in the next generation, 
together with the brush that the arrows are made of. So this is the way 
Young-Boy-Chief was treated for not fulfilling his promise to his wife 
after she was pregnant, and this is the way the story of Young-Boy- 
Chief ends. 
