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Sunday in the Woods.
Rolf still kept to the tradition of Sunday, and Quonab had in a manner accepted it.

It was a curious fact that the red man had far more toleration for the white man's religious ideas than the white man had for the red's.
Quonab's songs to the sun and the spirit, or his burning of a tobacco pinch, or an animal's whiskers were to Rolf but harmless nonsense.

Had he given them other names, calling them hymns and incense, he would have been much nearer respecting them.

He had forgotten his mother's teaching: "If any man do anything sincerely, believing that thereby he is worshipping God, he is worshipping God." He disliked seeing Quonab use an axe or a gun on Sunday, and the Indian, realizing that such action made "evil medicine" for Rolf, practically abstained.