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LavcHING Boy 123 A SS NN NN me to learn to make it. I shall pay myself back ior everything that has been. A single weft strand has no thickness at all, and

blanket is long. It needs patience to finish it,

znd to make it beautiful, one must not be afraid

i the colours.

Laughing Boy, having done his thinking and ~ade up his mind, did not mull over his decision, zay more than when he had started a bracelet; he worried whether it ought to have been a necklace. = he did think of other forms, it was only in re- I=cting that after this was done he would make —ore, and always more. You make your dies out of iron files, you get =vil. In a hard wooden board you cut depres- sas for hammering out bosses and conchos | ==: hemispheres for beads. When you have | zcught or made your tools, and have your skill, wuz go ahead. You make many things, rings, wz2elets, bow-guards, necklaces, pendants, belts, & mr.Zles, buttons, hatbands. No two are alike, but =x are all of the silver, or of silver and tur- ~Zaving what he had, he went ahead with living. ~ Taer= were many days, all different, some of high I} == ~on, some of mere happiness, but they were | al —ade of the same stuff ; there was one element

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