486 The Book of Woodcraft 



Bathe every sun in cold water and one sun in seven enter 

 the sweat lodge. 



If you would purify your heart and so see clearer the 

 way of the Great Spirit, touch no food for two days or more, 

 according to your strength. For thereby your spirit hath 

 mastery over the body and the body is purged. 



Touch not the poisonous firewater that makes wise 

 men turn fools. Neither touch food nor taste drink that 

 robs the body of its power or the spirit. 



Guard your tongue in youth, and in age you may 

 mature a thought that will be of service to your people. 



Praise God when you rise, when you bathe, when you 

 eat, when you meet your friends and for all good happen- 

 ings. And if so be you see no cause for praise the fault is 

 in yourself. 



A proven Minisino is at all times clean, courteous and 

 master of himself. 



The wise man wiU not hurt his mind for the passing 

 pleasure of the body. 



If any man be given over to sex appetite he is harboring 

 a rattlesnake, whose sting is rottenness and sure death. 



By prayer and fasting and fixed purpose you can rule 

 your own spirit, and so have power over all those about you. 



When your time comes to die, sing your death song and 

 die pleasantly, not like the white men whose hearts are 

 ever filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes, 

 they weep and wail and pray for a little more time so they 

 may live their lives over again in a different manner. 



THE LESSONS OF LONE-CHIEF, SKUR-AR-ALE-SHAR, 

 GIVEN HIM BY HIS WIDOWED MOTHER 



When you get to be a man remember that it is ambition that 

 makes the man. 



