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So a large fire was built upon the prairie, a short distance froe festival pot was suspended froallons of water

were put in; then Big Bear's wives, so lithe as fawns, plu herbs

So-bane," others searched

a the knotted roots for the little nut-like tuber that clings to

the root of the flag, while a few brought to the pot wild parsnips,

and the dried stalks of the prairie parsley A coy little maiden whom

many a hunter wooed, but failed to win, had in her sweet little brown

hands a tangle of wintergreen vines, andhunters with the dogs Each dog

selected for the feast hite as the driven snow If a black hair,

or a blue hair, or a brown hair was discovered anywhere upon his body

he was taken away; but if he were sans reproche he was put into the

pot just as he ith head, and hide, and paws, and tail, his throat

sis were thrown in, and the roots and stalks of the prairie

plants, together with salt, and bunches of the wild pepper-plant, and

of swah the reserves

round about for reat

Chief Big Bear was giving a White Dog feast to his braves before

su them to the war-path The feast was, in Indian experience,