410 THE WINNEBAGO TKIBE [eth. ann. 37 



soon. I could hardly wait until I reached the place where the next 

 meeting was to take place. I immediately told the leader (what I 

 wanted) and asked him to baptize me and he baptized me in the 

 morning. After that morning I felt better. 



Then I went to work and I worked with a railroad work-gang. I 

 was still working when the time for the midsummer celebration ap- 

 proached. I always went to the peyote meeting on Saturday nights. 



The old man was right in what he had told me. The girl students 

 returned in the summer. Shortly (after they retiu^ned) a man, a 

 friend of mine who had gone around with me, asked me if I wanted 

 to get married. "Yes, I do," I answered. Then he said, "Listen, I 

 have been thinking of something. What kind of a woman do you 

 wish to marry?" I told him what I had in mind. Then he said, 

 "Come home with me. I have a younger sister. I want her to 

 marry a good man; I would like to have her marry you," he said. 

 Then I went home with him. When we got there (and discussed the 

 matter) the girl gave her consent. The parents also consented. 



So there I got married and what I expected has taken place and I 

 have lived with her ever since. On one occasion, after she was used 

 to me, she told me this. (Before she had married she had determined 

 that) if she ever got married, she would not care to marry a very 

 young man. "I wanted a man who ate peyote and who paid atten- 

 tion to the ceremony." Such a man she desired and such a man was 

 I, she said. She loved me, she said, and she was glad that she had 

 married me. This is what she had asked Earthmaker (God) in prayer. 

 "And indeed it has happened as I wished," she said. She believed 

 it was the will of Earthmaker (God) that we had done this, she said. 

 She was therefore glad (that she had married me). Together we 

 gave ourselves up (to the peyote) at a peyote meeting. From that 

 time on we have remained members of the peyote (ceremony) . 



Many tilings are said under the influence of the peyote. The mem- 

 bers (would) get into a kind of trance and speak of many things. 

 On one occasion they had a peyote meeting which lasted two nights. 

 I ate a good deal of peyote. The next morning I tried to sleep. I 

 suffered a great deal. I lay down in a very comfortable position. 

 After a wMle a (nameless) fear arose in me. I could not remain in 

 that place, so I went out into the prairie, but here again I was seized 

 with this fear. Finally I retiu-ned to a lodge near the lodge in which 

 the peyote meeting was being held and lay down alone. I feared 

 that I might do something foolish to myself (if I remained there 

 alone), and I hoped that someone would come and talk to me. 

 Then someone did come and talk to me, but I did not feel better, so 

 I thought I would go inside where the meeting was going on. "I 

 am going inside," I said to him. He laughed. "Alright, do so," 

 said he. I went in and sat down. It was very hot and I felt as 



