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themselves. I have watched such men, they do not prosper, their children die, they have trouble. I have many times given back the presents, after they have been brought to the notice of Ti-ra′-wa-hut. I am now an old man, and I have not been in want. Such things used to be done in the past, the men who did them always had plenty, and were given long life."

Alice C. Fletcher.

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