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and that thou shouldst do in like manner to us who severally have 

 adjoining lodges, us who are neighbors, that we should not be dimin- 

 ished in number when we should again see the daylight come again 

 upon the earth.' 



"Thus it will continue to be day by day, night by night. Do you 

 not ever forget that this shall continue in this manner so long as the 

 ohwachira (Idnship groups) will continue to exist, and also so long 

 as the earth will continue to be. 



"Now, again, another thing; it shall be the duty of all persons 

 that they shall possess the power to be happy, also that they shall 

 be in the habit of giving thanks when they will continue seeing that 

 all my handiwork serves to please the minds of the children, even to 

 the least, and that you all have an equal right to it. 



"Now, again, another thing; that when you persons individually 

 go traveling where fires are severally kindled, at your several fire- 

 sides, and also on the several paths whereon human beings are in 

 the fixed habit of traveling, then it shall continue so to be that 

 wherever or whenever, by day or by night, that one arrives at 

 another's fireside, if it so be that it is just becoming day, he will 

 make rulable preparation and he will say, 'I am thankful that thou 

 and I are alive in peace as a new day has dawned upon us all.' At 

 that time, then, he will start forward and then they two will stroke 

 each other's body repeatedly, and also should he stroke the body of 

 a woman he will say, 'I greet thee repeatedly. I am thankful that 

 thou and I see and greet each other alive and in peace. Now, then, 

 thou and I do greet with thanksgiving Him who has formed our 

 bodies.' Now at that time the other person will say, 'Verily, indeed, 

 I am truly thankful that thou and I are so fortunate as to see each 

 other alive and in peace.' 



"Now, again, another thing; should it be that when the day will 

 have grown one-half that the same two persons meet again, they 

 shall observe the same manner of procedure; they two will stroke 

 each other's bodies repeatedly, and then one will say, 'I am thankful 

 that thou and I have again met in peace. Now the day has again 

 gone to the middle station; now, then, thou and I greet with thanks- 

 giving him who has formed our bodies.' Then the other one will 

 say, 'Indeed, verily, it is pleasant; I am thankful that it was possible 

 that thou and I have again met in peace.' 



"Then tliey two will separate, and should it be that these same 

 two persons n:eet again when it becomes dark, they two shall again 

 greet each other, stroking each other's bodies repeatedly, and one of 

 them will say, 'I am thankful that thou and I have passed through 

 the day in peace, for verily now the night has fallen on us. Now, 

 then, thou and I make rulable preparation to greet with thanksgiving 

 Him who has formed our bodies.' Then the other person will answer 



