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"It is very wonderful," said Turan "It reat skill and patience and ti done it so long I am quicker than most; but mine are the most natural Why, I would defy the wife of that warrior to say that insofar as appearances are concerned he does not live," and he pointed at the ht here wasted or badly wounded and these I have to repair That is where great skill is required, for everyone wants his dead to look as they did at their best in life; but you shall learn-to mount thely one look beautiful And it will be a great comfort to be able to mount your own Why, for fifteen hundred years no one has mounted my own dead but myself

"I have reat room for my wives I have the I spend with thes and very pleasant And then the pleasure of preparing the them even more beautiful than in life partially reco for a new one while I a on the old When I a her to the chamber where my wives are, and coreat satisfaction at such ti that they will not object I love harmony"

"Did you prepare all the warriors in The Hall of Chiefs?" asked Turan

"Yes, I prepare them and repair them," replied the old man "O-Tar will trust no other Even now I have two in another rooht down to , since it leaves two riderless thoats in the Hall; but I shall have them ready presently He wants them all there in the event any ree, or do not agree with O-Tar Such questions he carries to the jeds in The Hall of Chiefs There he shuts hireat chiefs who have attained wisdoh death It is an excellent plan and there is never any friction or s O-Tar has said that it is the finest deliberative body upon Barsoo jeds But coet to work; coin your instruction"