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174 LauGHING Boy tell. If he is to make some one else’s desigz. 3 2 must feel it in himself first. You cannot pci=: af pistol at a man and say, ‘“Make heat- ligh—mg! and clouds with tracks-meeting under them. zi make it beautiful.” ‘My son is thinking about a design for his == { Let him tell us, and if it is not good, perhaps wef can show him.’ ‘You have spoken well, Grandfather.’ g ‘Yes, you have spoken well.’ It was Spor=t | Horse’s only contribution. 1 They all shifted slightly, watching Laugtmg Boy. He spoke without hesitation, but selecog : his words precisely. L ‘T had not spoken, because I thought all yzury minds were made up. Now I shall tell you. If heard what my uncle told me that time; I saw] Yellow Singer and those others down there. I} have thought about all those things. I have nx just run in like a crazy horse. Everything = : been new, and I have watched and thought. ‘I have been with that woman many moos now. I tell you that I know that those bad things are not true. Hear me. 1 ‘It is true that our life is different, but we zm not following the American trail. Do not think &4 that thing. She is different. She does everythm r as we do, more than most school-girls; but she =