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even above the tree tops, where I may commune with thee undistracted; for there minds are not obstructed by the things of the world, but can look straight at thee & behold thee clearly. Shake not from thee our minds, oh, Mighty One, ours of the seven clans of the red clay. Thou hast already driven away from him who now supplicates before they throne, the power of the evil one, who corrupts slumbering hearts by fascination' and in so doing, for my heart their hast shown love. Continue that guardian love, oh Almighty One, and suffer not my heart to fall away from its devotedness to thee."

     In rendering this prayer, an interpreter for the name of the Evil Spirit, used the word Ketcte, which in word scratched out the original is synonimous with brass. At this I words scratched out instantaneously laughed and catching the eye of words scratched out the Principal Chief at the moment, he smiled word scratched out also. Sickatower noticed this and had no sooner completed this first clause of the prayer, thanhe declined proceeding. That said he "is all." It was not all; for he had repeated words scratched out many more verses, one for each clan, and seven, one