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so I had to give him a lecture in astronomy, using the globe of the gas fixture to represent the sun and my hat as the earth. I moved my hat in a whirling fashion around the globe and told him we traveled around the sun in that fashion, and made the trip in 365 days. He saw at once the naturalness of the thing and exclaimed "How ignorant we are!" But I explained to him that it was many hundreds of years of hard study for the white people to find that out and from force of habit they still speak of the sun going down when in reality it did [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] go down. He was as much interested in my talk as I was in his when he talked of the earth and its relation to the sky. After our conversation it was about 9 o'clock and I went to Wm. Pryor's house to stay

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over night as he had invited me to go with him and his wife fishing the next day. Monday came and it was a beautiful day. We drove ten miles over the reservation and came to the camping place. The prairies as we went along were a delight to see as they were covered with many flowers of a great variety. I wish I could describe them to you but it would take so much time and paper. We fished all day. There were two other men. I caught a number of perch and thought I was doing well as did the other two men. Bill P. went off by himself and we did not see or hear him. When in the evening we got tired of fighting flies and the hundreds of caterpillars that crawled all over us we went back to camp and fried our fish. Pryor when called yelled back but did not come. When our fish were just about cooked here he came with seven big bass almost as long as half the length of my arm. He made us all ashamed of our catch