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SECTION 36

"'Now another message to tell your people.

"'This will happen.

"'We have told you to watch.

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"'The Honon'diont will go out in fours for game for the feasts. You may think that they are fulfilling their duty to Gai'wiio`.

"'The animals that fall must be thirty.

"'But this will happen when Gai'wiio` is new. The Honon'diont will kill twenty-nine and the twenty-ninth will be a cub bear. So there will not be thirty.

"'So this will be done when Gai'wiio` is new. It will be done at Adekwe'onge, the Green Corn thanksgiving ceremony."'

So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk.


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