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tossed or turned over by holding the dish firmly in the hands and striking down hard on 

 the cushion. For counting in this game, there are forty-eight small sticks, abov\t five 

 inches in length, named ha-g-a-fa-nid-g'nal; four somewhat larger, named fk'm-vjay-ivâl, 

 and one notched, called non-â-da-ma-wuch. 



Fig. 1. — Manner of holding the Wal-tah-ha-mo'g'n (dish) in playing All-tes-teg-emlk. 



Fig. 2. — One of the AU-tes-teg-enûk (a flat, carved disc) 



All the sticks are placed in a pile. The discs are put in the dish without order ; each 

 contestant can play while he wins, but on his missing, the other takes the dish. Turn 

 ing all the discs but one, the player takes three small sticks, twice in succession, nine 

 sticks, three times in succession — one big stick or twelve small ones. Turning' all alike 

 once, he takes a big stick, twice in succession — three big ones, or two and lays a small 

 one out to show what is done, three times in succession he stands a big stick up — 

 equal to sixteen small ones from opponent^ — the notched one to be the last taken of the 

 small ones — it being equal to three. 



When all the small sticks are drawn and there are large ones left in the pile — instead 

 of taking three from opponent, the players lay one out to show that the other owes 

 three sticks, and so on until the large ones are won. Then, unless the game is a 

 draw, the second and more interesting stage begins and the sticks have different value. 

 Turning all the discs but one, the player lays one out — equal to four an from opponent. 

 Turning all the discs but one, twice in succession, he lays three out — equal to twelve 

 from the other — three times in succession — stands one up, equal to one large or sixteen 

 small ones. Turning all alike, be sets up one large one, twice in succession ; then throe 

 large ones, or lacking these, three small ones for each large one. This would end the 

 game if the opponent had none standing, as there worild be no sticks to pay the points. 

 But a run of three times of one kind in succession is unusual. When one has not 

 enough sticks to pay points won by the other, comes the real test of skill, although 



