Ghost country, but now when they die we can
never bring them back.
The Sun had been glad when they started to the Ghost country, but
when they came back without her daughter she grieved and cried,
"My daughter, my daughter," and wept until her tears made a flood
upon the earth, and the people were afraid the world would be
drowned. They held another council, and sent their handsomest young
men and women to amuse her so that she would stop crying. They
danced before the Sun and sang their best songs, but for a long time
she kept her face covered and paid no attention, until at last the
drummer suddenly changed the song, when she lifted up her face, and
was so pleased at the sight that she forgot her grief and smiled.
6. HOW THEY BROUGHTBACK THE TOBACCO
In the beginning of the world, when people and animals were all the
same, there was only one tobacco plant, to which they all came for
their tobacco until the DaguTku geese stole it and carried it far away
to the south. The people were suffering without it, and there was one
old woman who grew so thin and weak that everybody said she would
soon die unless she could get tobacco to keep her alive.
Different animals offered to go for it, one after another, the larger
ones first and then the smaller ones, but the Dagul kfi saw and killed
every one before he could get to the plant. After the others the little
Mole tried to reach it by going under the ground, but the DaguTku
saw his track and killed him as