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one slice * so they may kill their foes; that also is what they ask of 
you, and that they also may not meet disease, is also what they ask 
in return from you.’” That is what that puppy says to him. 
Only those puppies which are in the center when there is a dance 
do not die forever: they come back eventually after the festivals are 
completed. And those who are merely placed there dwell yonder 
where the manitous dwell. That is what happens to them, so it is 
told. That is what is told of the puppies that are merely placed 
there. And it is by these puppies that all (the manitous) who always 
have well-known places are continuously visited when they go around 
bringing tobacco; such is the report concerning them. That is why 
they are merely inside (the lodge) and why they always lie facing 
the east. That is what is reported concerning them. It is as I 
have heard regarding them. And it is why at a gens festival those 
bones which (people) have finished eating (the flesh on) are piled up 
in a heap within (the lodge) and they are thrown in a pile at (the 
base of) an oak tree outside. That is what is told of them. 
And one kettle is also placed forward ! always on the east (side). 
Anything regarded as superior is placed there.*? That is how it is 
here in the Meskwakie country. 
And when the ceremonial attendant has come back then he who 
is celebrating the gens festival makes a speech. Now this is what 
he says every time a gens festival is held: “ Now, all to whom I am 
related, it is well that we all have properly consumed what we dedi- 
cated to the manitous, and that you have not refused our ceremonial 
attendants. That is how our religion is supposed to be. In turn, 
those who blessed our forefathers will also bless you.” That is 
exactly what he says there. Then they would be told, “You had 
better leave me.” 
That is as far as I have to tell of this one. And (I shall tell) 
another story of the same nature. I do not know this very well. 
I tell it exactly as I have heard it was. I have perhaps finished this. 
And J shall relate another. That is all. 
18 The dog symbolizes the foe. See also pp. 513, 533. 
19 Translated freely. See -a'kA-in the list of stems, 
20 Rendered rather freely. 
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