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lying down would die before then. Such went aside by themselves. But all took with them from the table, some of the medicinal roots, as narrated among the other points common to this and to the occasion just quoted. The assembly now dispersed to various houses in the town, changed their wet garments for clean and dry ones, and then returned to the National Heptagon.

The higher classes went through the same ceremonies, but not until after the common people.

The victuals having been prepared and set in order, as at the Mature, or Ripe Green Corn Feast, all ate at about nine o'clock. As in all other cases, the tongue of the first buck killed must be sacrificed ere the priest might taste its meat; and as soon as the tongue when on the fire, the past year's leaves in which it had been wrapped. must be consumed. The blank space, counsellors, and a few others, probably ate later than the multitude, as at other feasts.

Such, however, according to the omen, were to die before the first Spring New Moon, fasted all this day. At evening, each one of them gave the black space a deerskin, or piece of new cloth. He afterwards took them again to the river. He spread one piece of