he came out.
At last the Hummingbird offered, but the others said he was entirely
too small and might as well stay at home. He begged them to let him
try, so they showed him a plant in a field and told him to let them see
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how he would go aboul it. The next moment lie was gone and they
saw liim sitting <m the plant, and then in a moment he was back again,
l>ut do one had seen him going or coming, because he was so swift.
"This is the way I'll do," said the Hummingbird, so they let him try.
Ilr flew off to the east, am! when he came in sight of the tobacco
the Dagul ku were watching all about it, but they couldnot see him
because he was so small and tlew so swiftly. Ilr darted down on the
plant tea! and snatched off the top with the leaves and seeds, and
was off again before the Dagul ku knew what had happened. Before
he got home with the tobacco the old woman had fainted and they
thought she was dead, but he blew the smoke into her nostrils, and
with a cry of " Tm'lu! [Tobacco!]" she opened her eyes and was alive
again.
-I I OND VEBSION
The people had tobacco in the beginning, but they had used it all,
and there was great suffering for want of it. There was one old
man so old that he had to be kept alive by smoking, and as his son
did not want to see him die he decided to go