Like everything else pertaining to man, it is a matter of development modified by circumstances. Fillmore’s excellent investigation[284] in this line only proves again that man is the same in all climes and ages since first we get track of him, so far as his fundamental make-up is concerned. Variations and differences are only those which come from a development of latent talents or possibilities. He always moves, when he moves, along certain lines that are prearranged by his constitution and his environment. He may stop where circumstances direct, but he will have stopped where others stopped before. [Illustration: SET OF PLAYING STICKS] There is always a great deal of repetition in the songs. The Amerind seems content to go over and over again the same few notes. In some tribes the poet and singer stands in the interior of a circle formed by all the members of the tribe—men, women, and children—around a cedar tree from which all but the top branches have been removed. A time of moonlight is chosen, and I remember well such a night with some Pai Utes, of Arizona. The poet recited his refrain, then all took it up and repeated it in song, circling round and round the cedar with their peculiar shuffle, repeating and repeating. I joined the circle and the singing till I became tired, and finally left them still enjoying it. The poet would give out some such stanza as “No rabbit kill, No rabbit eat,” and it would serve the purpose for a considerable time, when he would be obliged to announce a new one. Mooney has translated some of the songs of the Arapahos used in the Ghost or Resurrection Dance, and I give several as specimens of their style[285]: “O, my children! O, my children! Here is another of your pipes—He eye! Here is another of your pipes—He eye! Look! thus I shouted—He eye! Look! thus I shouted—He eye! When I moved the earth—He eye! When I moved the earth—He eye! ———— “The sacred pipe tells me—E yahe eye! The sacred pipe tells me—E yahe eye! Our father—Yahe eye! Our father—Yahe eye! We shall surely be put again (with our friends) E yahe eye! We shall surely be put again (with our friends) E yahe eye! Our father, E yahe eye! Our father, E yahe eye! ———— “The cedar tree, the cedar tree! We have it in the centre! We have it in the centre! When we dance, When we dance, We have it in the centre! We have it in the centre! ————