Note 65 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

Of bone breaking. Pikoi65 and bone breaking constitute this profession. When a person desired to learn the profession, he was taught by the instructor in the ordinances of bone breaking deity, strictly obeying the counsels of the instructor. During the course of instruction only ten evenings or ten noon times were occupied, after which the augury pig was roasted. If the pig was faultless in its preparation, then his bone breaking practice would be successful. But if the augury pig was faulty, chinked perhaps, the instructor would say: “It is of no use seeking to learn bone breaking, because, where the pig was cracked, there an injury would be inflicted.”