MICHELSON] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 39 
a manitou has probably thought of you; that is why that has happened 
to you. You are probably blessed,”’ the old man said to his grandchild. 
And likewise the girl related: “It is said that we will make a sacred 
pack. Later on is when it will be; that is what the owl told us. 
Black-Rainbow was also there and was told it at the same time,” 
she said. She was looked at attentively. ‘‘ Your uncle [mother’s 
brother] (and his people) live truly far off,’’ she was told. ‘‘They do 
not live near here,’ she was told. ‘Truly he listened there,” she 
said. ‘He was there and was told about it at the same time,’’ she 
said. They ceased bothering her as they were convinced by her. 
Soon she was bothered no longer. 
Then it is said that they were both made to fast earnestly. Later 
on soon they camped together. Then the old man related: ‘This 
grandchild of mine a while ago once related, ‘it is said that I am to 
make a sacred pack,’ he said a while ago,’ he said. Then, it is said, 
he thereby made those, whose daughter Deer-Horn was, mindful (of 
what she had said). “This (daughter) of ours a while ago related of 
the two what she and her uncle had been told there by the owl. At 
first verily we did not believe her; but soon indeed we were convinced 
of what she said.”’ And they were surely thought to be manitous. 
They were very quiet. That woman, it is said, was not bad when 
she first grew up. Likewise that man was in no way bad. 
Now, it is said, once as he was lying down somewhere afar off while 
fasting, he thought, ‘‘ Well, this is what the owl said to me a long 
time ago: ‘When you are grown up, you are to make a sacred_ pack.’ 
He told me long ago. Now indeed is when I am grown up,” he 
thought. 
Likewise that virgin as she was still making a bag soon thought of 
her uncle. ‘‘ Well, we two, I and my uncle, were blessed long ago,”’ 
she thought. ‘Now indeed he must be grown up,” she thought; 
“even I have now become a young woman,” she thought. Then, it 
is said, she said to her father, “ Father, let me go where my uncle is,” 
she said tohim. ‘Allright,’ she was told. She went thither. 
When she arrived there, lo! he surely was full-grown. They looked 
at each other at the same time. ‘Oh, indeed, my uncle is now very 
much grown up,”’ the woman thought. Then, it is said, they talked 
to each other outside. ‘‘ Well, eventually, what that grandfather of 
ours, the owl, said to us (has come to pass). ‘Whenever he shall be 
grown up,’ he said to you in the past. Now indeed I am grown up,” 
he said to his niece. ‘To-day indeed we shall expect our grand- 
father,’ they said to each other. They departed> He was accom- 
panied by his niece. , ~ 
After they came to a lonely spot they saw a man who was naked. 
“Hello!”’ they were told. ‘Hello!”’ they said to him. ‘Come!’’ 
they were told. They accompanied him. 
