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wg 136 “LavGgHING Boy Road until he stopped giving us beans. Thx { Twice Brave went back and stole a lot of rec § toghlepai that he had, it was something to <z } with his religion. It was good. But when he hz: | drunk a lot of it, he went and made his horse drizz | it. He put the bottle down its mouth and made = § take it, the way he had seen an American do. Ez § made his horse crazy, just like a man. I saw = It couldn't walk straight. And now he has spok= to his mother-in-law, they say. So he has a bz: | toothache. You should come to the dance.’ I ‘Ei! ishould like to see that man. Ishallcor= | if I can.’ [ He was glad that the season of the great danc= | was returning. As he rode home, he thought th: § it would be good to see the gods once more, pe:- | haps to know the holy fear and exaltation whez one swallowed the sacred arrows inside the Dari § Circle of Branches. He loved the gatherings «x J people, the huge fires, and the holy things. Ther was religious experience and high thought, an: § then there was sociability on a large scale. Some- | times there were horse-races or a chicken-pull c= | gambling. He had not thought about these things for sz § long, or at least he had thought of them distantly. | himself apart. As a blanket and its design befor: | dawn is seen, but has no colours, then with clear |