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then to the west, and so on alternately. This being done, the priest led him to a certain house, where he offered sacrifice for him. He cleared a space and lighted a holy fire and placed over it the end of a deer's tongue and a little mush. When the destination of the boy was for service among warriors, if the meat popped, casting a piece on two towards the boy, he would be slain enemies; but if the meat, in popping, was cast from him, his career would be generally victorious. When the destination was for the civil, and not the military, priesthood, a for the office of a unclear of the sacred herbs, on for any other of the various unclear, the appearances of the sacrifice and the inferences from them, would differ accordingly. One priest might have seven youths under his tutelage, but no greater number. They would always continue to unclear their holy guide occasionally. He would then pass a day and night with them in watching a fasting and teaching. When he perceived that his own death was approaching, he would gather all their pupils around him and repeat all his instructions, selecting some one of them to be his successor, and to receive his Divining Chrystal as a last bequest. Sometimes the pupil thus honored took the talisman at the moment, but generally not