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LAaugHING Boy 257 - everything again, he didn't know where he was. . Landmarks shifted too quickly, he was in a tur- 1 moil once more, with his determinations to be | made anew. She asked him to roll her a cigarette; then, ‘Make the drink as you have seen me do, only make some for me, too.’ He hesitated. ‘Do not be afraid of my medicine.’ i He muttered a denial and fixed the drink. She sipped at hers slowly. She needed strength, for she was nearly exhausted, and there was a battle to be fought. ‘You cannot know whether a thing is good or 3 bad unless you know all about it, and the cause of it. I do not try to say that what I have done is § ood, but I want to tell you my story, that you do not know; then you can judge rightly.’ 3 He hardly had expected her to come so di- fF -cctly to the point. He prepared to sift lies. ‘Roll me a cigarette. ‘I have to begin way back. Hear me. ‘When I was still a little girl, they took me zway to the all-year school at Wide Weatr, as you | snow. They took me because I did well at the B® -ay school at Zhil Tséchiel, so they wanted me to B® -arn more. I told you how they tried to make us BE -ot be Indians; they succeeded pretty well. I

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