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one of the shrewdest men of the Senecas and a person seemingly 

 free of superstitution, thought that he would allow the medicine 

 of his father to remain idle. He wished to have nothing to do with 





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The medicine rattle presented to Mrs Converse by the ^ 

 Canadian Medicine Society 



the old-fashioned heathenish customs of his father. Indeed he 

 did not take interest enough in the medicine to look at it. Several 

 medicine sittings passed by and the man began to suffer strange 



