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I shall go and mail this soon after dinner.

I am quite comfortable. We have electric lights and a bath-room with hot water! I sleep between linen sheets and under soft comforter and blankets. I need a table to write on and I shall get one as I shall probably be here about three weeks. The work goes slowly. As soon as it is possible I shall drive to Gray-horse about seven miles from here to see old Pa-ci'-du-ha and see if he will be willing to give me what he knows. If he is I shall take my machine to his house and work with him there as he is blind and helpless. I hope he will give the rites. My host will help me.

I caught a fresh cold but Dr. Moffitt's medicines came handy and my cough is lessening. I feel quite well now and I shall be careful to stay so. 

From the fragments of [[wi-gi'-e?]] that my host has recited to me I think I can get from him some interesting things. This old Pa-ci'-du-ha called to his house one day and said that he did not expect to live long and asked my host to be kind to him and to paint his face with the symbolic painting to which he is entitled, upon his death, so that his spirit may go to his brethren in the spirit land. He gave my host $20.00 as the fee. There seems to be no one but my host who could work the symbolic paintings of the dead. This seems to have disturbed the mind of the old man but now that my host has promised to perform this this last rite for him he seems contented. The old man still believes in the teachings of his fore-fathers and clings with unfaltering faith to the ancient Non'-hon-zhin-ga I.e. rites.

Love to the Parsons.
Affly, [[signature]] F [[/signature]]