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I am feeling pretty well
Cold and rheumatic pains gone.

Hominy, Ok.
Jan. 10, 1917

My dear M,

I am back here at Hominy. As I wrote you yesterday, I came to Henry Pratt's place and spent the larger part of the day there. Pratt, was giving his first meeting for two years. He has been suffering the two years with rheumatism and was at one time at the point of death. It was about eleven o'clock when I got there. I was heartily welcomed by Mrs. Pratt, who is a granddaughter of the historic chateau, and she asked me to go into the meeting house. The services were nearly over. I went up to the holy fire as I entered and four men gathered about me with their feathers and dusted my sins into the fire. I guess there were many of them and I hope they were forever consumed. I was given a place near the man who was conducting the services. He is a cousin of Mrs. Pratt, son of the sister of Mrs. P. The ceremony of the giving of experiences, that is, the visions seen during the meeting, was suspended, and I was asked if there were any news touching their religion. I gave them, as briefly as I could, the present situation, the persistent effort of the enemies of the peyote to get a bill passed in Congress to prohibit the importation of the peyote. I also told them of my interview with Mr. McDowell. They were very much interested. When I had finished speaking, Mrs. P. and the other women who were setting the table out of doors, came in to announce that the dinner was ready. These women each in turn stood before 7 holy fires and were