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PETALESHAROO. 215 The season of planting was at hand : the Pawnee-Soups, in order to call down a blessing upon their labours in the field, prepared for their wonted sacrifice to the cruel divinity, who they believed, presided over the genial fruits of the earth. There was more than the usual bustle in the principal village of the tribe. The faces of some of the seniors wore a look of anxiety, and the young people, for several days preceding the ceremony, could be seen grouped together before th...e scattered lodges, with an air of curiosity and impatience, seldom observable in their little community. The fact was, that there chanced to be at this moment, not a single captive in the band, to offer up in sacrifice. The last that had been taken a pretty Tetau girl, of the name of Lataka had escaped the horrible fate which awaited her, by perishing, as was thought, in a fray which had occurred at nightfall, soon after her arrival in 216 PETALESIIAROO. the village. The young partisan, Petalesharoo, the son of the old Knife-chief Latelesha, had in terfered at the moment that the maid was about to be consigned to the hands of the magi, to be by them prepared for their annual rite, and in the confused broil which ensued, the prisoner disappeared, and was represented by the prin cipal magician to have perished by falling, while her hands were yet bound, into a stream near the village, during the commotion which took place upon its immediate banks.
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