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But then -LRB- it was a strict rule that he always followed -RRB- he recited to himself the first three stanzas of the Rain-Maker 's song , and had a new and wiser thought . This he spoke aloud . `` Boy , '' he said , `` beginning to-morrow I myself shall take you in hand and make a man of you . You will be at the medicine-lodge at noon . Meanwhile go to your mother 's lodge and tell her from me to give you a sound beating . '' The children marvelled , the boys envied , and Andramark , his head very high , his heart thumping , passed among them and went home to his mother and repeated what the Wisest Medicine-man had said . `` And you are to give me a sound beating , mother , '' said Andramark , `` because after to-day they will begin making a man of me , and when I am a man it will be the other way around , and I shall have to beat you . ''