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his wife, or any other woman, during the seven days of the dance nor for four days after the play. Some were scratched, the better to fit them for the play. These must not associate with a woman for twenty four days after being scratched. 2. They must eat no meat, nor anything hot or salt. They could only eat cold bread, & drink parched corn meal in water. 3. No woman must come to the place of the dance, nor walk in a path the players had to walk, during the seven days of the dance. 4. If one of the players had a wife in a state of pregnancy, he must, in dancing, in walking and in the play be hindmost. On the second day of the dance, the players ordered a number of lads to kill a squirrel, without shooting it, for the ball. A man selected from the Bird Clan, took the skin, dressed it, made the ball, filling it with deers hairs, and put it on the skin with the conjurer's beads, the night before the play. This man must then fast till the play was ended. The seven nights of the play were conducted as the first, except on the seventh night, the players danced seven times instead of four, and the seven women previously selected, danced