BEAT AGAINST ME NO LONGER
In this interpretation of an Indian love song the lines beginning, "Be not as the flat-breasted squaw-sich . . . who hides three sleeps in the forest . . .," refer to an old Algonquian custom that a young girl in the period of puberty must leave the village in shame and must live alone for a certain period of time in a wigwam in the wilderness.
THE CONJURER
The chée-sah-kée, the conjurer or juggler, is a sort of mystery-man who works in league with the bad spirits and Much-ie Má-ni-dó, the Devil-Spirit, rather than with the good spirit-helpers of the medicine men,—although some conjurers may be both chée-sah-kée and medicine men. This magician is regarded by the older superstitious folk,—and by many pagan Indians today,—as possessing the power to establish a league with the evil spirits, whereby he may perform great feats of magic and of spiritualism. In one of his performances the juggler is bound with ropes of tough bark and is placed in the chée-sah-kan, his specially built teepee, the poles of which are so stout and so deeply planted in the earth that they cannot be moved by a human being. The conjurer then chants his "magic song," uses his "charms," invokes the aid of the spirits, and thereby performs the feats sug-
