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 offered hand between both hers, she put into it a packet, saying, "she left this for you, and she blessed you, when the cold dew was on her forehead like rain-drops." John Cooper bowed reverently, and the chief, stalking with his majestic port toward him who had officiated, said "Father! thou hast spoken well. The Great Spirit is pleased with words like these, and with a life like thine."