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Our stages were now hung with slices of drying meat

Our stages were now hung with slices of drying meat.jpg Strikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little ballsThumbnailsMy two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feastStrikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little ballsThumbnailsMy two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feastStrikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little ballsThumbnailsMy two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feastStrikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little ballsThumbnailsMy two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feastStrikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little ballsThumbnailsMy two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feastStrikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little ballsThumbnailsMy two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feast

The next day we found to our joy that the wind had shifted to the west. Our stages were now hung with slices of drying meat, and we had built slow fires beneath. An east wind would have carried the smoke toward the herd and stampeded it.