Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.

  • Leo J. Frachtenberg
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    started to play, (but soon) began to feel sleep)', d'hey looked up and saw many stars. The youngest sister then said, “What do you think about making the stars our husbands?’’ And her other sister said, “Which one do you want?’’ — “I want that smallest star.” And then she said, “Which one do you want?” — “I want a very large star.” Then they all fell asleep. They knew nothing any longer. They were asleep. Early in the morning they two woke up. And when the younger sister woke up, she saw an old man resting (beside her). His hair was all white. Then she saw (that another) man was resting beside her older sister. Very good-looking was the man who lay down near her older sister. The woman hardly believed her own eyes mind]. (Then each of) those men said thus; “I am the one whom you wanted last night.” Thus is known (the story of) those Star-People. No one knows what happened to them. Thus the story is related. It is the end. 7. The Origin of Death ^ (Coos). They were two brothers, and they lived together. Each of them had a wife, and each had a little boy. One day early in the morning the child (of one of them) became sick. It was not sick long before it died. Very sorry was he whose child had died. He buried his child, and for one day he did not eat. Some one was keeping watch by the dead child. Then after four days he went to see his cousin. “Cousin, what do you think? Shall my child that died come back on the fifth dav?” Such were his words. “Not so. Just eat, and you will get well.” ^ By metathesis for qlutca ta’^x wives have they two. Passive.