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in sharpening ploughs & in upsetting (making a new edge) of axes. strikeout Into this his business fell entirely. but he had to give much credit; and could not remember the persons & the sums, there were so many. His alphabet had not then been thought of. He devised this mode of keeping his accounts: He would express the person by some sign or by something like a rude profile or strikeout full length likeness strikeout : and and after it he would put as many strikeout large round marks as strikeout there were dollars & for smaller sums, as many smaller circles, thus: for $1.75 cents he would put three circles, one large, one medium, one small--image; but this sum confused him & then he would for several dollars, five for instance, File:Large circle followed by five 's, and so on; and after that, he would make straight marks, crossing them of every 5 or thus, five lines, one line across them--image, and if there were more tens than one, expressing each ten by a cross X--image. At last, he made the numbers, as strikeout he now uses them. In 1824 the National Council voted him a medal. On the 15th of October, 1825, they voted the establishment of a paper and printing office and the forming of a sett of types for the purpose of printing with the character invented by George Gist. On the 12th of January, 1832, the medal was sent to him, with the following letter from the Principal Chief: