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to make their home therein. They found the earth dry and a little house with four bent poles. (willow), as the frame. (The four winds and the sky above). This they called the house of the little ones, the house in which they are to be born and brought to maturity. These two [[gentes?]] are the Thunder and the Buffalo.  The latter has [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] two names, The Willow ^[[insert]] and [[/insert]] the Red Buffalo. They found four kinds of corn, the speckled with the speckled squash; the blue, with the blue squash; the yellow with the yellow squash; the red with the red squash. There are three parts to this wi-gi-e, the descent, the finding of the buffalo and the finding of the foods. 

I hardly expected to get so much out of my host but I have learned a number of things by conversation. He was very much provoked at old old Pa-ci'-do-ba refusing to give me the rituals and the two reproached each other at a public gathering, one for treating the rites lightly and the other for refusing to have the rites recorded so that they might not be forever lost. The old man said he would take his rituals with him to the spirit lands, my host told him that those who had gone before were better versed than he and they would give him no chance to recite them. The old man gratuitously gave out at this meeting that he had refused to give me the rites and this brought my host to the attack. Hou'-mon-da-kon of Hominy who was present said to the old man, "You cling tenatiously to the rites that should be abandoned as the means by which the devil has been misleading the Osage people. There is very little in it that could be regarded as good, most of it has to do with the taking of innocent lives, lives of people who have as much right to enjoy life as we. By clinging to these rites you associate yourself with the devil." The old man did not relish