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had caught (the disease) became well one by one. Then they ceased 
having the plague. Then he knew that his blessing was really true. 
It was very true. 
And later on they went around singing. At that time they 
were very much feared and respected. And (the one blessed) 
himself kept on giving full instruction to his fellow-members of 
Those who go about singing. “Now this day we depend upon 
this drum. It surely must be so. This is what comes of mak- 
ing one’s body terribly hungry, and fasting. You already know 
how I helped you. I obeyed what my grandfather told me; I 
obeyed him in everything when he told me, ‘fast earnestly in good 
faith; do not be in the habit of stealing anything; if you keep on 
stealing you will make yourself much poorer; and do not go around 
saying things against the people; do not go after women too soon; 
stop to notice women; whenever you are full-grown you may marry 
one who shall have lived quietly; do not desire to have one too soon; 
stop first to prepare yourself to help the people,’ so he used to say 
to me. He always gave me instructions; I indeed obeyed him. 
Surely obeying must be right, I have been thinking this day. Fast- 
ing is very proper. And all that you know I have been doing at 
this time, I obtained from fasting. Verily, be zealous in making 
your children fast earnestly,” he said to his fellow-members of 
Those who go about singing. ‘‘ Now it is a fact that I must have 
been made to fast before I knew anything; from the time I was five 
years old my grandfather used to say to me, ‘you must begin to be 
in the habit of fasting.’ I did not know anything then, even when 
I was more than six years old I did not know anything. When I 
was first blessed my grandfather especially forbade me to do as I 
had been blessed. If I had accepted it, I should have had power 
over you in such a way that you would die, so I was blessed. If I 
had not told him, I should have led myself in a very wrong way, I 
used to think. Now if children were made to fast when they are 
seven years old it would be right, and (it would be right) if they 
continued to tell one aged person secretly so that the manner of their 
blessing might be looked into by him. That is how I did, I always 
told my grandfather,” he said to them. 
They tried very hard from then on. Occasionally (someone) 
brought something for them to cook. Soon one of their fellow- 
members of They who go about singing fell sick. Shortly afterwards 
he died and was brought to (the one blessed). ‘‘Oh, what are we 
now to do?” he was told. “Oh, if those who are bereaved by the 
death have anything they must cook it. Then we shall gather,” he 
said. ‘‘You must tell them,” he said to the one who came to tell 
him at the time. When he came again he said, “Oh, they will surely 
cook (something).”’ The (one blessed) brought his drum there and 
