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shall say, 'Now, I have brought in the medicine. Now, then, thou 

 and I ask that the medicine should aid thee.' 



"Now, at that time, one will say, 'Thou who abidest in the sky 

 continue to listen. Thou, verity, hast completed all things. Now, 

 then, one and I pray Thee that it should aid her (or him) so that 

 would be the cause that she (or he) would travel about again in peace 

 over the earth. Now, then, the matter rests with Thee, what Thy 

 mind will do. Thou, verily, didst complete our lives.' So, thus it 

 shall continue to be, thus you shall continue to do in the future, the 

 days to come and also the nights to come. Now, again, another 

 thing; now, then, I will deliver that by which you shall continue to 

 live. So then, now shall begin that which will become hard laboi- 

 for you. So then, you shall put your hands to them, you shall care 

 for them when the time comes that the soil of the earth shall again 

 become hot. So, when that time will, customarily, come, then you 

 shall customarily place them in the ground; and there shall be the 

 three kinds of that on which you shall live; one shall be called Corn; 

 and the next shall be called the Bean; and the next shall be called the 

 Native (Original) Squash. So then, when the time comes in which 

 you should place it in the ground you shall then plant it; and, then, 

 when you shall finish this then the people shall assemble and you 

 shall give thanks repeatedly, and for this purpose j'ou shall make 

 use of the preliminary Ceremony of your usual custom. Now, at 

 that time, the Ceremony of the Great Feather Dance will take place. 

 You shall continue greeting one another repeatedly with thanks- 

 giving, and me also you shall continue to greet repeatedly with 

 thanksgiving. So then, when it will have sprouted and will have 

 come forth out of the ground then you shall begin to care for it. 

 Do you not spoil it in attending to it. Thus, again, next in order, 

 you shall do when you have finished this task. The people shall 

 assemble themselves and you shall employ all the Ceremonies which 

 you are accustomed to use. So then, when there is putting forth of 

 beans, these shall be gotten, these be gathered, and a kettle of these 

 cooked shall set there, and that will support the entire body of 

 assembled people; then one shall be chosen by unanimous voice, and 

 he shall speak. When he will speak he shall follow the prescribed 

 course, beginning with the matters such as they are in the preliminary 

 Ceremony of thanksgiving; he will begin below with the manifold 

 things that give pleasure to your minds, and he shall carry his dis- 

 course upward to the manifold persons who assist you and protect 

 you. Now, then, also, you will continue to greet me with thanksgiv- 

 ing, that now j^ou will again newly partake of them. Tliat shall be 

 the first, so then, the Ceremony of the Great Feather Dance shall 

 start and all persons shall continue to be happy. Everyone shall 

 contiime to be greeting with thanksgiving, repeatedly. Me, too. 



