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theless pursued a very different course with Simon. They honored him 
and invited him to their dog feasts. They praised him; told him he was a 
good fellow; that he had taken many Ojibwa scalps, and so they wanted 
him to drink spirit water with them. How much Simon resisted the impor- 
tunities is not known. He fell. -He was ashamed. He put off his white 
man’s clothes and for some time was an Indian again. 
For several years his history in regard to fire water was one of sin- 
ning and repenting. Again and again he was drawn away. His appetite 
for spirit water would return, and the desire to obtain horses by trading in 
it led him farther astray So we mourned sadly over his fall. He repented 
and promised reformation only to fall again; and each time he appeared to 
go down deeper than before. For years he seemed to work iniquity with 
ereediness. Yet during all this time we had hope in his case. We often 
urged him to come back to the path of life; and something seemed to say, 
“Simon will yet return.” Sometimes we obtained from him a promise, and 
sometimes he came to church, but was so much ashamed that he could not 
be persuaded to enter, but would sit down on the doorstep. 
Thus he came up gradually, getting more and more strength and 
courage. And so in 1854 he returned to the dress and customs of the white 
men and to his profession of love to Jesus Christ. Since that time he has 
witnessed a good confession before many witnesses as a ruling elder and 
class leader, and recently as a licensed local preacher. 
When the outbreak of 1862 occurred Simon and his family were living 
in a brick house near the Hazelwood mission station. Subsequently Little 
Crow and the whole camp of hostile Indians removed up to that part of the 
country, and they forced the Christian Indians to leave their houses, which 
were all afterwards burned. While the hostile and loyal parties were 
camped there near together on Rush Brook, Mrs. Newman, one of the cap- 
tives, and her three children, came to seek food and protection in Simon’s 
tipi. She had been badly treated by her captors, and now cast off to go 
whither she could. She afterwards told me that she felt safe when she 
found herself and children in a family where they prayed and sang praise 
to the Great Spirit. 
Little Crow ordered the camp to be removed from the vicinity of 
Hazelwood up to the mouth of the Chippewa. At this time, when all had 
started, Simon fell behind, and leaving his own family to take care of them- 
selves, he and one of his sons placed Mrs. Newman and her children in a 
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