MICHELSON J OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 37 
Then that boy began fasting. Soon he understood the owls. He 
understood what they said when they hooted. 
And the same happened to the girl: she understood the owls. 
And soon in the evening when an owl was hooting, he was told, 
‘Come here, my grandchild, boy, where I am hooting.”’ 
Likewise yon girl was told at the same time, ‘‘Come here, my grand- 
child, girl.” 
They set out toward the sound and arrived at the same time where 
that owl was. They were extremely hungry, for they were fasting. 
It was in the early spring; then it was that they were fed. And, it is 
said, when they ate secretly they thought of each other because (the 
grandparent did not know it). 
After they had eaten, they were told, ‘‘Well, my grandchildren, 
now I am going to tell you about what is called a sacred pack. You 
shall make one wherever this your uncle (mother’s brother) shall be 
a young man,” Deer-Horn was told. ‘‘You will keep track (of the 
time). ‘I declare, he has grown up,’ you will think. When you 
shall think, ‘We shall probably make it soon,’ then indeed you are to 
make it,’’ Deer-Horn was told. As for that Black-Rainbow, ‘‘ You 
will indeed know when you are mature,” he was told. ‘‘When you 
think, ‘Well! I have grown up,’ then you will surely be grown up,” 
he was told. ‘‘You will (both) make the sacred pack. Verily you 
will tell those who take care of you. ‘We are to do this,’ you shall 
tell them. They will not forbid. you. ‘Well! Very good,’ you will 
be told. Moreover if you relate that I fed you to-day, indeed you will 
not be scolded,” they were told by the owl. 
And after they had been given the discourse, ‘‘ Well, you may each 
depart, my grandchildren,” they were told. They went home. And 
they were told, ‘‘You will continue (back) on the way you came.” 
They did precisely that. They continued (back) on the way they 
came. 
When the boy arrived yonder he related, ‘‘ This is what an owl told 
me. He said: ‘You (pl.) are to make a sacred pack whenever you 
(smg.) shall be grown up,’ he told-me. She, Deer-Horn, was there 
and was told at the same time,”’ he said. His grandfather looked in- 
tently at him. Then he narrated exactly what had happened to him, 
how he heard and understood owls. After he had related all, his 
grandfather addressed him: ‘‘ Your niece (and her people) live far 
away,” he was told. ‘I declare! Grandfather, she was there and was 
told at the same time. I was not dreaming. We were spoken to a 
great deal. May be, egad, I completely have forgotten ,it. But 
truly it is not so,” he said to his grandfather. ‘‘ Well, my grandchild, 
