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received benefit from it, so be it; he the manitou, so be it, when he 
spoke to me, so be it, when he instructed me, so be it, he took pity 
on (my prayers), so be it, and blessed me, so be it. Truly, so be it, 
we have, so be it, many times, so be it, gotten good from it, so be it. 
Because, so be it, at this time, so be it, it has made me happily 
excited, so be it, is the reason why I am performing this ceremony, 
so be it, because we have, so be it, gotten good from this, so be it, 
his sacred pack, so be it. Truly, so be it, the manitou, so be it, 
knows me, so be it. 
“That is the way, so be it, I am relating, so be it, this to you. 
He, the manitou, so be it, who is in the East, so be it, is the one we 
are worshipping, so be it. And, so be it, the one who is in the South, 
so be it, is one whom we also worship, so be it. And, so be it, life 
is what they alike spoke to me about, so be it. And, so be it, the 
one, so be it, who is in the West, so be it, is one, so be it, we also 
worship, so be it. And, so be it, the one, so be it, who is in the 
North, is one we also worship, so be it. We pray to them alike for 
life, so be it, to bless us that way. 
“Our cooked food, so be it, so be it, has blown out,7? so be it. 
That is the way we hand out, so be it, this our cooked food, so be it. 
“And so be it, that disease, so be it, will not afflict us, so be it, is 
what we pray, so be it, to the manitous, so be it. To bless us in 
that way is what we say to them. ‘Those who have brought in their 
eatables, so be it, are they, so be it, to whom you first, so be it, hold 
your hand open, so be it. 
“And the last time, so be it, it is the head manitou to whom we 
speak, so be it, but we do not pray to him in any way startling. 
It is always merely for healthy life, that is what we pray to him for 
and good vision, so be it. And, so be it, as he continues to change 
the appearance, so be it, of this earth of his, so be it, we ask him, 
so be it, to think quietly, so be it, of us, so be it. For he, so be it, 
is the leading one, so be it, of those who are called, so be it, the 
manitous. He has also made a promise to me, so be it; that is why 
we freely worship him, that he might thimk that way of our town; 
that is the way, so be it, we ask him kindly. 
73 Meaning unknown. 
