ȼátaⁿcé! niní gakĕ´! ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte wí waníta aⁿȼaⁿ´bakĭn´de you who tobacco that! At any rate I quadruped brushing by me stand! lg. ob. anájiⁿ tá miñke, eȼégañ-gă. Haú, ┴e-sĭn´de ugácke I stand will I who think thou. Ho, Buffalo-tail tied to it (sit), ȼátaⁿcé! niní gakĕ´! ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte wí waníta aⁿʇáp‘ĕ you who tobacco that! At any rate I quadruped near to me stand! lg. ob. anájiⁿ tá miñke, eȼégañ-gă. Haú, Unéȼĕ niñkĕ´cĕ! niní I stand will I who think thou. Ho, Fireplace you who tobacco (sit), (sit)! gakĕ´! ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte wi waníta aⁿ´naaí agȼiⁿ´ tá miñke, that! At any rate I quadruped drops over I sit will I who lg. ob. on me (from (sit) the kettle) eȼégañ-gă. think thou. _Notes._ Told by George Miller. In the last invocation, he began to dictate thus: “Haú, Náwiⁿxe dúba ákipasan´de nañkácĕ!” i. e., “Ho, ye Ho, Firebrand four meet at a common ye who point four firebrands that meet at a common point (i. e., in the middle of the fireplace)!” He subsequently changed it to an invocation of the fireplace itself. But it is very probable that there was an invocation of the four firebrands, resembling the ceremonies of the Kansa and Osage (see § 33). George has given all that he remembers of the invocations, but he does not recollect the exact order. 387, 3. [p]eje-hide, “lower part,” or “roots of grass,” an archaic name for “makaⁿ”, medicine. Nini gakĕ--the classifier kĕ shows that a long object, the pipe, is referred to, the tobacco being in the pipe when it is offered to the powers. 388, 1. aiȼagaȼaȼiⁿhe, contr. from áiȼágaȼa áȼiⁿhé, used here in the sense of “abȼiⁿ,” I have. 388, 12. aⁿȼaⁿbakĭnde, eq. to aⁿȼaⁿbista ȼéwaȼĕ, to send them (through) when they are so close that they touch me. _Translation._ The invisible being who first made the beaver medicine and taught its use to mankind, was thus addressed: “Oh, Thou who didst teach how to make the medicine, here is tobacco! Though I have your medicine, the nature of which I do not understand at all, grant that I may easily acquire something or other by means of it! Here is tobacco!”