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He was made fun of more than ever by those in the relation of 
uncles (mother’s brothers) to him. Then, it is said at the third day, 
“Now probably to-morrow we shall be blown all over,” he was told. 
“OQ, I don’t care where I shall be blown,” they said. Then, it is said, 
the next day at noon time dreadful-looking clouds were approaching. 
They were very much frightened. Pretty soon they saw large trees 
blown by. The elms were blown out by the roots. Then, it is said 
they were frightened, for the hills were blown all to pieces. 
Then, it is said, they prayed to that sacred pack. 
“QO, I shall answer you favorably,” they were told. “This, our 
sacred pack, is yonder, you go and untie it,” he told those who were 
ceremonial attendants for him. “Hurry up,” he told them. They 
untied it in a hurry. At that time, it is said, it was coming close. 
Then, it is said, that person who owned that sacred pack stood up 
facing it. Then he made a speech: “My grandfathers, so be it, go 
by here, so be it, quietly, so be it; you might frighten, so be it, your 
people, so be it. So we want you, so be it, to go by quietly, so be it. 
So be it, that is why, so be it, I spread, so be it, this, so be it, my 
sacred pack, so be it, for you, so it will see you, so be it, when you 
are going by, so be it. That is the reason why, so be it, I set it out 
like that for you, so be it, my grandfathers, so be it. So be it, 
believe and bless me, so be it, for you are the manitous, so be it. 
So be it, that is why, so be it, I freely, so be it, pray to you, so be it. 
So feel and think as, so be it, I pray to you, so be it. So do that, 
so be it; you have been instructed, so be it, never to, so be it, frighten 
them, so be it. That is what has been planned for you; so be it, by 
your fellow-manitou, so be it, when you were declared to be free 
here,” so be it, by your fellow manitous. That is why I freely pray 
to you, my grandfathers,” he told them. 
Truly the wind blew to opposite directions. The storm which 
blew hard was blowing to different directions. 
Then it is said, to his ceremonial attendant, ‘‘Now you go around 
to the places of those whom you attend ceremonially,” he told him. 
“They are to bring here whatever they have; we are to hold a gens 
festival. ‘You are said to hold a gens festival,’ is what you must 
tell any of them as you go by, ‘right here where I live,’”’ he said. 
Then it is said at once the young girls began-to clear things away. 
In a short time the food had been brought together. Then they 
commenced their gens festival, and they gave a dance. There were 
many people, for he had made them happy. Then, it is said, he 
began speaking: ‘‘O, this, so be it, our sacred pack, so be it, we have 
7 That is, on this earth. 
