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things are young pups, who are tortured with entire disregard to 
their feelings. 
Several of the western Eskimo tribes are in the habit of tat- 
tooing their young girls ; this, however, is not done by the Itan- 
ese. Jimmy’s wife, who came from the west, showed a simple 
pattern of tattooing on her face, and was for that reason often 
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ted the face of 
ch caused her 
g-glass. The 
anently fixed, 
I washed off 
ridiculed by the other women. At one time I pain 
a girl about ten years of age with water-colors, whi 
to cry bitterly when she saw herself in a lookin 
mother of the child, supposing the color to be perm 
threatened to assault me, and was not satisfied until 
the marks. 
