Suddenly a woman jumps upon his back, then dismounts, takes the doctor by the hair, and drags him back into the teepee.

All fragments of the bark animal are then collected and burned.

The ceremony there ceases.

If the patient does not recover, the doctor says he did not get the right animal.

The reader must be convinced that it is not for want of the most strenuous exertions on the part of the physician.
These are some of the customs of the Dahcotahs, which, however absurd they may appear to us, are held in sacred reverence by them.