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they kept saying as they ate, " I am thankful for this food," each as 

 lie felt satisfied. Thus in time they fulfilled the rites of the feast of 

 eat-up-all, which is usiuiUy given when one is married; they ate up 

 all that had been prepared for them — a good omen for the newly 

 married couple. Then each went his way home. But there was one 

 matter which was postponed until the next day. 



The day after the feast of eat-all-up there took place what Oiigwe' 

 Hafiges"ha' had said would come to pass. He had said, " I crave a 

 smoke, and so very early tomorrow morning you, my mother-in- 

 law, must again go around and invit« your neighbors, telling them 

 as you go from place to place that your son-in-law is about to take a 

 smoke, and that he will then disgorge wampum- beads." God- 

 wennia"dani'. the mother-in-law, replied with joy, " So let it come 

 to pass," and she went forth again to issue invitations to her neigh- 

 bors, represented by small sticks, saying: "I extend to you hereby 

 an invitation to come to my lodge. My son-in-law, Oiigwe' Hanges'- 

 'ha', is going to smoke, and he will then disgorge wampum beads." 

 So saying, she visited all her neighbors, and then she returned to her 

 own home. 



Having reached home, she said to her son-in-law, " In a .short time 

 the people will have assembled here." Shortly after, the people began 

 to come. They seated themselves in the lodge and became very quiet. 

 Then the old woman, Godweiinia"dani', placing a bench or block of 

 wood in the center of the room, called to her son-in-law, " Oh, my 

 son-in-law, Oiigwe' Hafiges"ha', come hither." At this he came 

 forth from the place wherein the "noble" or "down-fended" maiden 

 lived. Seating himself on the block provided by his mother-in-law, 

 he threw over his knee the entire skin of a woman,*'* which still had 

 the head affixed to it; the eyes winked and moved from side to side. 

 Ofigwe' Hanges"ha' took from his pouch his pipe and filled it with 

 tobacco. The tobacco which he used was a mixture of native to- 

 bacco, hemlock gum, spicebush bark, and red willow bark.*^*^ When 

 he placed it in his pipe this mixture emitted a very pleasant odor. 



Then Ongwe' Haiiges"ha' said to his mother-in-law, " You must 

 spread out here a tanned buckskin." So she hastened to obey his in- 

 structions and spread a buckskin on the ground in front of him and 

 between his feet as he sat on the block of wood. In explanation of 

 what he was about to do. he said : " Oh, my mother-in-law, all the 

 wampum that shall fall on this buckskin shall belong to you; but the 

 wampimi that shall fall away from this skin shall be for prizes to 

 these of the assembly who may be able to seize it, for all will struggle 

 to obtain some. This will take place twice, for I will draw into me 

 the smoke several times. The first time that I draw in the smoke I 

 will disgorge black wampum beads; but the second time I will dis- 

 gorge white wampum beads. So the people may strive to obtain 



