THE MEDICINE MAN
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tossed and roughly handled, for Indian devils come out reluctantly.
The performance lasted for hours, taking the greater part of the night and the assemblage was wrought up to frenzy; but the treatment stopped only because human nature could endure no more. With the smoke, noise and general atmosphere the interior of the lodge became unbearable and the physical strain was too great to be longer endured.
Sustained and soothed by this struggle with the evil one in his body, the sick man himself with patience and before many days generally gave up the ghost.
