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scant twenty- 



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eight days that 

 it takes me to walk 

 around the Earth 

 gives name to the 

 Moonth, tricked of 

 a. letter to Month. 

 " The time it takes the Earth to follow 

 its path about the Sun is called a year, 

 and while it does this once, I have made 

 my monthly circuit thirteen times. But 

 House People think the number thirteen 

 is crooked and unlucky, so they divide up 

 the thirteenth month and give a few days 

 of it to each of the other twelve, and 

 say that twelve months make a year. The 

 Red Brothers give their year thirteen, 

 while Wabeno makes his Kalendar with 

 twelve and one long month of Moons to 

 bind them. 



" You can well see that one who gives 

 , i name to time and dates, and has 

 its picture in the Alma- 



