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them ; or if there be one, he is a covetous fellow, and does not take 

 care of his people ; and he leaves them to die, or become slaves." 

 After you get such a bad character as this, should you become exceed- 

 ingly wealthy, and exalt yourselves, and set yourselves up for this and 

 that, the people of other lands will not believe you, will not fear you 

 will not regard you at all. 



Love. — Children and grandchildren, love one another. Do not 

 quarrel, do not find fault with each other. When we are in the 

 village we are separate people, bat when we go together to clear the 

 fields, we are brethren ; and if one is taken sick on the road, or in 

 the jungle, we must take care of him ; we must look after each other. 

 When we cut fields together, we are brethren, and if one is sick, all 

 are sick ; if one dies, all die, and we must carry his body back to his 

 house, and lay it in the hall, that his brethren may see, and his 

 children may see, and his wife may see that he is dead. 



Love peace.— Children and grandchildren, love peace, and you will 

 live in peace, and live to be old. He who loves peace, his house will 

 be established, and it will be permanent. He will sleep in peace and 

 have agreeable food to eat. He who walks in peace, will enjoy 

 peace. He will have associates, he will have friends. His daughters 

 will demean themselves with propriety, and his sons will live happily. 

 He will have no adversaries, he will have no enemies. The lovers of 

 peace will live long and be prosperous. 



Evil doers. — The evildoer has no friends ; he has no houses, no 

 fields ; but he has adversaries and enemies. His daughters will be- 

 come slaves, his sons servants. His wife will become the wife of 

 another, and his kyee-zees and gongs will be all expended. His 

 kyee-zees will become the kyee-zees of others ; his money the money 

 of others. His land will be destroyed, and his country will come to 

 destruction. 



Children and grandchildren, take no pleasure in them. Evildoers do 

 not live to be old. Their ways go up quickly to old age and death. 



Duty to Parents. — Children and grandchildren, he who does not 

 love his father and mother, will suffer for his sin. When he was 

 small, his mother gave him the milk of her breast to drink, and she 

 bore him about, and carried him pick-a-pack, and cleaned him when 



