Most Amerind songs are connected with ceremonials, and some are imported or adopted. Ceremonials are not always sacred. Many of them are full of amusing features intended to entertain the onlookers. The attendance at a camp or village on a ceremonial day is for amusement as much as anything else. The different tribes of a locality expect to meet friends then and enjoy social intercourse. The Amerind is fond of games, races, and all forms of sport on which a wager can be laid. A game without a stake would be no game at all for him. He must put up something to lose, and I once noticed after a distribution of goods among individuals of a certain tribe that within twenty-four hours a few had all the goods. In modern times many Amerinds play cards. Their own games are numerous. In the “awl game,” played chiefly by women, “the players,” according to Mooney, “sit upon the ground around a blanket marked in charcoal with lines and dots and quadrants in the corners as shown in illustration on preceding page. In the centre is a stone upon which the sticks are thrown. Each dot ... counts a point, making twenty-four points for dots. Each of the parallel lines, and each end of the curved lines in the corners, also counts a point, making sixteen points for the lines, or forty points in all. The players start from the bottom, opposing players moving in opposite directions, and with each throw of the sticks the thrower moves her awl forward and sticks it into the blanket at the dot or line to which her throw carries her. The parallels on each of the four sides are called ‘rivers,’ and the dots within these parallels do not count in the game. The rivers at the top and bottom are ‘dangerous’ and cannot be crossed, and when the player is so unlucky as to score a throw which brings her upon the edge of the river (_i. e._, upon the first line of either of these pairs of parallels) she ‘falls into the river’ and must lose all she has hitherto gained and begin again at the start. In the same way, when a player moving around in one direction makes a throw which brings her awl to the place occupied by the awl of her opponent coming around from the other side, the said opponent is ‘whipped back’ to the starting-point and must begin all over again.... The game is played with four sticks, each from six to ten inches long, flat on one side and round on the other. One of these is the trump stick and is marked in a distinctive manner in the centre on both sides, and is also distinguished by having a green line along the flat side, while the others have each a red line.... There are also a number of small green sticks, about the size of lead pencils, for keeping tally. Each player in turn takes up the four sticks together in her hand and throws them down on end upon the stone in the centre. The number of points depends upon the number of flat round sticks which turn up.... Only the flat sides count except when all the sticks turn round side up. On completing one round of