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"'Sitting Bull' was a recognized medicine man, and of great repute among the Sioux, not so much for his powers of healing and curing the sick which, after he had regained such renown, was beneath his dignity as for his prophecies; and no matter how absurd his prophecies might be, he found ready believers and willing followers, and when his prophecies failed to come to pass, he always succeeded in satisfying his over-credulous followers by giving some absurd reason.
"Am I over-credulous?" he asked. "Thou art. Thou believest this Hebrew to be honest in his show of interest in his people?" "I can not doubt him, Ta-user. One has but to see him to be convinced." "One has but to see him to know that he might be coaxed into passiveness with that for which an Israelite would sell his mummy gold!" "Nay! Nay!" Seti exclaimed. "Thou dost wrong him!
Sometimes the throwing-off young gentleman happens to look in upon a little family circle of young ladies who are quietly spending the evening together, and then indeed is he at the very height and summit of his glory; for it is to be observed that he by no means shines to equal advantage in the presence of men as in the society of over-credulous young ladies, which is his proper element.
"You are braver than I, Philip, because you are more ignorant than I. I have been too long an amateur of the curious. Sometimes in over-credulous moments I have almost believed that in sober verity there are reasoning beings who are not human beings that for their own dark purposes seek union with us. Indeed, I went into Pomerania once to talk with John Dietrick of Ramdin.
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