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of the crowd to make the candidate laugh. They may even tickle his face with a feather.
4. Exact obedience. Bring to a given place at a given time two willow rods exactly alike, straight peeled and smooth, of a stated length. If a minute late, or a fraction of an inch wrong, or a trifle different, it is a failure.
5. Lone camp. Leave camp, go alone into the woods with blankets, hatchet, and two matches, and pass the night alone in comfort.
6. Guard the gate. That is, stay all day, twelve hours, within ten feet of a given place on the road. His meals must be carried to him. He must politely ask every one their business and offer his services, returning a pleasant and a courteous answer, no matter what fool questions are asked or rude remarks made. Then at night render a satisfactory written report on the same.
7. He must show a useful woodcraft article made by himself, as a basket, a bed, a lamp, a bow, a set of fire sticks, etc.
8. He must take five grand coups in woodcraft (not athletics) according to the standard for his age.
9. Dance the Sun Dance. That is, be sunburn from head to foot without blistering or red-burning, showing that it was done by degrees.
10. He must go at midnight to a graveyard and sit there alone for half an hour.
He then becomes a –
Pappoose and is allowed his badge, which is the Horned Shield, with a small brown lodge and two green tassels to it. Also he is given the right to wear on his hat or head the head-band of his Lodge.
LITTLE LODGE – ABINODJI OR CHILD
To become an Abinodji, the Pappoose must qualify in the following:
