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With horn spoon she filled her mouth with water

With horn spoon she filled her mouth with water.jpg We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.
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But if the weather was cold, we did not go to the river to bathe. An earthen pot full of water stood by one of the posts near the fire. It rested in a ring of bark, to keep it from falling. My mothers dipped each a big horn spoon full of water, filled her mouth, and, blowing the water over her palms, gave her face a good rubbing.

Author
Waheenee--An Indian Girl's Story
By Waheenee
as told to Gilbert Livingstone Wilson
Illustrator: Frederick N. Wilson
Published in 1921
Available from gutenberg.org
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