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from you since Monday. I am very glad you are all right. Be careful of yourself.  I am quite well now. Yesterday was a beautiful day and today is not bad.  The sun shines but the wind is a little disagreeable.

I am not sure of the day when I can start back to Hominy. I cannot tell till next [[insertion]] week [[/insertion]] when I get the Ni-ki-e ritual from my host. That is going to be interesting. The sky next to this one (the earth) is yellow, the first two seem to be colorless. I want to write out these rituals before I go to Hominy for fear of accident to the records. This will probably take a day. I shall try to write these two out tomorrow. Both are quite poetic, but short. I hope I shall be able to get the ritual promised by A-zhi-ga-xre of Hominy. If I see Wa-xri-ghi I shall try to get from him the burden-strap ritual in paraphrase. I see no chance of getting it in wi-gi-e form. The deaths of W's son and grand-child are against me, the people believe W's misfortunes were caused by his giving the rituals. This old lady does not believe in that. Old Ku'-ghi'-wa-tse took the trouble to go to her and tell her not to give me the loom and the rituals. She said they were hers and would [[insert]] do what she [[/insert]] liked with them. They were no use to her now. This she told him she could do with easy conscience as she had purchased both loom and rituals. He said that she would suffer Wa'-xpe-gete, (penalty for violation of vow.), but she met his warning with the statement that Wa'-xpe-gete fell only on those who failed to fulfill their vows, she said she kept all of hers and so she had no fears. Well, the