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woman come, but do not do anything to your wives,” they were told. 
And then it is said they started for home. The things which were 
given them were kettles, hangers, knives, axes, flint rocks, matches, 
pipes, dippers, dishes, spoons, spears, and arrowheads. That was 
what they were given. 
Then in four days only the older women (came). Large tin buck- 
ets, small kettles, and some fine dry goods were given them to cover 
themselves. They were told just how to make them. The other 
things were combs, beads. ‘‘You are to use these things in the 
sacred pack as ornaments,” they were told. 
They thought the tiny bells were very cunning. In fact they were 
given all kinds of finery. ‘You take this to her,” they who had 
young maidens were told. Those who had young maidens were 
known. They did not beg him, they were given freely. The women 
continued to carry great loads. When they met again and again 
they were very glad. 
“The manitou knows me,” some of them said, among themselves. 
“That is the reason you see this,” they said to their children. 
Then women began searching for him (the trader). It is said they 
would say that they were going for things to make strips of bark- 
strings; they would be looking for that same thing. And the women 
who said, ‘‘The manitou knows me’’—those who said that wore out 
their clothes in a short time. They never succeeded in finding 
their trader. 
Then that young man called all the people together: ‘This is the 
object of me calling you together,” he said to them. “I have never 
known anyone to be spoken of, ‘ this is what happened to him.’ When 
you are sick you merely keep lying down. You do not know good 
medicine. If you had known good medicine, you could be curing 
and making each other well. You know me; when I was a boy I 
cured my friend; you now still see my friend. That is how it would 
be if you had known good medicine. Now if you just depend upon 
me, you will not do well. This verily is the way you could do 
rightly, by blacking your faces with charcoal every day before you 
eat. That is the way you could do good. Finally the being called 
a manitou would take pity on you. Verily, if anyone is blessed, 
surely he would have the power of a manitou, that would happen to 
him. If anyone gets a knowledge to be a successful doctor, why he 
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