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and made a short prayer. Again the priests began beating upon 

 the rawhide with the long rattles and started the second song, during 

 which, as during the first song, they continued beating the raw- 

 hide, but not keeping time with the song. At the end of this song 

 another priest got up and made a spirited prayer, asking that the 

 priests might be guided aright by the medicine-spirits. The third 

 song was begun, at the end of which was another prayer, and the 

 fourth song followed, with the same irregular accompaniment of the 

 rattles. At the end of each of these four songs, as well as at the 

 end of each of the prayers, some one outside the lodge gave a cry 

 imitating that of the wolf. 



Again followed a brief intermission, during which the Lodge- 

 maker filled two ordinary pipes as before, one of which was handed 

 to the priests and smoked around the circle, he and Black-Man 

 smoking the other one. At the end of the informal smoking some 

 one called out and the dancers on both sides arose, those on the 

 north side of the lodge moving around toward the south until the 

 end of the north line joined the north end of the south line. 



This was the first opportunity to judge of the number of men 

 who were to feast and dance during the ceremony, and it was found 

 that there were thirty-nine in the line. Of this number all were 

 members of the Dew-claw organization except Bull-Tongue, who 

 had made a vow to fast and undergo torture to restore his wife to 

 health, and two Arapaho, the reason for whose presence has already 

 been noted. 



Fifth Songs. 



The priests began the first of the fifth series of songs, while the 

 dancers began the first movement of the so-called "hand and arm 

 drill." Placing their whistles in their mouths they raised their 

 right arms toward the center-pole and slowly lowered them. This 

 they did six times, the palm of the hand being held downward each 

 time. Again they raised their hands toward the center-pole and 

 lowered them slowly for the seventh time, accompanying the move- 

 ment by whistling long and loud. The line turned on itself. The 

 south extremity started toward the north and in front of the line 

 of dancers, until there were two equal lines on the north side of 

 the lodge. The rattling began, followed by the second song, and 

 the dancers slowly raised and lowered their left hands toward the 

 center-pole, keeping the palm side down. This movement was per- 

 formed eight times. Black-Man now stood at their head as leader 

 and dancer. Led by Black-Man the inner line turned back toward 

 the south again, where the dancers formed in two lines, and during 



