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have pity on you. When he won your wife's clothes did he give 

 them back?" Then the poor man moved a piece of painted moose 

 hide, called ck'.ut'.e', around in front of the cliief. It made liim very 

 angry, but he dared not say anything. The chief lost his nepbews, 

 his house, and his wife's clothes and offered to stake his wife, but his 

 opponent refvised until his cousin said, ' 'Go on and get everything 

 he has. If you do not want them you can give them back." wSo he 

 won his wife also. Then he put his gambling sticks away, refusing 

 to gamble for the chief himself, because he knew that there is always 

 trouble at the bottom of gambling. But his friends said, ''If he is 

 foolish enough to stake himself and his wife, go on and gamble. 

 After a while he will feel it in his face (i. e., be ashamed)." So he 

 played ()nc(> more and won his ()])])onent also. 



Then he said, ''Since you have staked everything and I have won, 

 I suj^pose that this is all. Do you remember how you won every- 

 thing from me? You were very hard on me. You even won my 

 wife's clothing, and you did not give me anything back. You left me 

 in such a condition that I could not do a thing to helji myself and 

 my wife. You know that I have won you. You belong to me. You 

 might be my slave, l)ut I will not be that hard upon you. I have 

 won you and your wife, but I don't want to claim you. Take your 

 wife also. She is yours and I don't want to claim her either." 



High-caste people did not become gamblers, because they always 

 remembered tliis saying. They always told their children that gam- 

 bling belonged to lower ]ieo])le and was not work for an honest ]:)erson. 

 On account of what ha])])ened at that time a gambler will now get 

 crazy over the game, and think, when he is using the last money in 

 his purse, "I am going to win it back. 1 may win it back with the 

 last cent I have." So he keeps on and on until he goes through with 

 everything. The whole town knows that he is going crazy over gam- 

 bling, but he thinks that he is doing the right thing. When a gam- 

 bler wins a lot of things from anyone nowadays, he remembers 

 QouAlgl'c and gives some of them back. He is not as hard on him 

 as the chief -was t(^ the ])oor man." 



It is from QonAlgi'c also that the gambling sticks have different 

 names and that there are diiTerent kinds of niiqs and different sorts of 

 cicts. These cicts are lucky gambling sticks, but the lucky medicine 

 that a gambler obtains is also called cict. In order to get it he has 

 to fast, remain away from his wife, and keep what he is doing secret. 

 At that time he wishes for whatever he desires. This medicine also 

 makes a person brave and is used when ])reparing for some im])ortant 

 action. The name cict is said to have come from a wolf which had 

 something stuck between its teeth. When a certain man got this out, 

 the wolf said, ' 'I will show you my cict. I will tell you what it is." 



a In this paragraph are seen the effects of missionary teachings. 



