Even so did the Duck, as bidden, even so did the Kâ'yemäshi, one and all, as it had been said they would do as the Duck requested them, and before the morning came, they went with a litter, singing a quaint and pleasant song, down the northern plain, bearing their litter. And when they found the K'yäk'lu, see! he looked upon them in the starlight and wept; but their father, he who had been the glorious Síweluhsiwa, his youngest brother, stood over him and chanted the soothing yet sad dirge-rite, and he, too, wept and bowed his head; but presently he lifted his face and, as a gleeful child, his children joining, cajoled the silent K'yäk'lu to sit down in the great soft litter they bore for him.





©1996, Richard Hooker

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