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woman to the wigwam of bark, put the 

 dead body in a covering of birch bark, and 

 place the body on the ground in the middle 

 of the wigwam." On the next morning, 

 when this had been done, the family and 

 friends went into the lodge and seated 

 themselves around the corpse. 



Then they saw, through the doorway, the 

 approach of a bear, which gradually came 

 toward the wigwam, entered it, and placed 

 itself before the dead body, and said "Hu, 

 hu, hu," when he passed around toward the 

 left side, with a trembling motion, and as 

 he did so, the body began quivering, which 

 increased as the bear continued, until he 

 had passed around four times, when the 

 body came to life and stood up. Then the 

 bear called to the father, who was sitting 

 in the distant right hand corner of the wig- 

 wam, and said: 



"My father is not an Indian. You are a 

 spirit son. Insomuch my fellow spirit now 

 as you are. My father now tobacco you 

 shall put. He speaks of only once to be 



