what the wrong was. But they smiled at Mattie in the most friendly way,
Nora grasping her by the hand said:

"I hope yere sister will be after walkin' soon."

Then came the Wohelo ceremony. Mattie came forward and lighted a
branch, throwing it on the ashes, while Patty Sands knelt and lighted
it chanting:

"Wohelo means work. We glorify work because through work we are free. We
work to win, to conquer, to be masters. We work for the joy of working
and because we are free."

Then she stepped back and Edith Overman came forward chanting and
lighting another branch.

"Wohelo means health. We hold on to health because through health we
serve and are happy; in caring for the health and beauty of our persons
we are caring for the very shrine of the Great Spirit. Wohelo means
health."

Then Sallie Davis stepped forward while Edith retired. She lighted the
third branch which crackled and threw up numberless red sparks, after
which she chanted the last verse:

"I light the light of love, for Wohelo means love. We love Love, for
love is life and light and joy and sweetness. And love is comradeship
and motherhood and fatherhood, and all dear kinship. Love is the joy
of service so deep that self is forgotten. Wohelo means love."