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Oklahonia Writers! Project
let de people 1~ow dat wa~r. Den dey jest go back in de house and let de fire go out ‚ aM dons t eiîen t ech de dead. person t ill somebody gi t dar what has de right to tech de dead.

	When somebody bad sick dey build a fire in de house, even in d-e sumer, and don‘t let it die down till dat person git well or die. Then dey die dey let de fire go out.

	In de morning everybody diless up fine and. go to de house whar de dead is and stand around in de yard outside de house and dontt go in. Pretty soon along come somebody what got a right to tech and. hand1e~de dead. and dey go in. I dontt know what give dem d-e right, but I think dey has to go thro~xgh some kind of medicine to git d-e right, and I know dey has to drink de red. root and purge good before dey tech de body. Then dey gît de body ready dey come out and all go to de graveyard-, mostly d-e family graveyard, right on d-e place or at some of the kinfolkses~

	Then dey git to de grave somebody shoots a gan at de north, d-en de west, d-en de south, and den de east. Iffen dey had- four gans dey used. tem

	Den dey put de body d-o~i in de grave and put some extra clothes in with it and some food and a. cup of co,ffee, maybe. Den dey takes strips of elm bark and lays over d-e body till it all covered- up, and den throw in de dirt,

	Vihen de last dirt throwed on, everybody must clap dey hands and. smile, but you sho hadntt better step on any of de new dirt around. de grave, because it bring sickness right along wid you back to your own house. Dat what dey said, anyways.

	Jest soon as de grave filled up dey built a little shelter over it wid poles like a pig pen, and. kiver it over wid. elm bark to keep de rain from soaking down in de new curt.

	Den everybcx1y go ba:ck to de house and de family go in and scatter