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run out, and grumble and growl like a bear escaping from its den for life. In this way we continued our

visits, and had opportunities to converse with the family, which resulted in the conversion of all his children. In

the month of February, he himself came to us, and plead earnestly for our forgiveness. He had gone

out to hunt the martin, with his youngest daughter, who was about ten years old. While her father was

preparing a martin trap, or dead-fall, as it is sometimes called, the daughter slipped behind a tree, knelt in the snow, and prayed for her father. The Lord heard her prayer. The old man “felt sick in his heart,” and every thing he looked at appeared to frown upon him, and to bid him “ go to the missionaries, and they will tell you how you can be cured.” He returned home three days earlier than he had intended. Just after day-dawn, we heard a number of Indians praying. John Southwind came in and said to us, “ Ke-ge-lce- wa-ye-wa/2, Kale-be-wah-be-lcoo-bay Ice-c/ze-ah-/:00-sey,” i. e. your friend Spear .Malcer is Very sick; he Wishes you to call at his wigwam and pray with him. This was good news indeed i We went at once, and prayed with him. He could not speak; but sat sobbing and sighing over the fire. We conversed with him, and then’ left him; but before breakfast he entered our house with his large medicine sack containing little gods of almost every description. He stood before us, and said, “ flit bay, ah was ah 3/ah m0ok,”—here, take this. He cast the bad or sack, down upon the floor, and

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wept and sobbed bitterly, saying, “ I have done all I could against you, but you have been my friends. I