The Stonies, as you remark, are not a polished set; but we're on pretty good terms, and it's their primitiveness that makes them interesting.

You can learn things civilized men don't know much about from these people." "In my opinion, it's knowledge that's not worth much to a white man," Harding remarked contemptuously.

"Guess you mean the secrets of their medicine-men?
What isn't gross superstition is trickery." "There you are wrong.

They have some tricks, rather clever ones, though that's not unusual with the professors of a more advanced occultism; but living, as they do, in direct contact with nature in her most savage mood, they have found clues to things that we regard as mysteries.

Anyway, they have discovered a few effective remedies that aren't generally known yet to medical science." He spoke with some warmth, and had the look of a genuine enthusiast; but Harding laughed.
"Medical science hasn't much to say in favor of hoodoo practises, so far as I know.