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After pouring water on it once, that man spoke to the stone: “ Now, 
our grandfather, so be it, now as these your grandchildren, so be it, 
are dependent, oh, your life, so be it, oh, pray, breathe on them that 
they may come to life, so be it. That is what, so be it, they desire 
of you, so be it, our grandfather, so be it. Therefore, so be it, you 
will bless them that way,so be it. Therefore, so be it, you will bless 
your grandchildren, so be it, from now on, so be it, in the only good 
way, so be it,” he said to it. 
He poured (water) on the stone twice. Then he poured (water) 
on it the third time; no one said a word. When he poured (water) 
on it the fourth time, he opened it, and behold, they were alive. 
Those men and women were very glad. 
Then that (fire) was blazing very greatly; even that billet with 
fire on one end burst into great flames when those who lived there 
became alive. 
Then, according to the story, he told the people: ‘Now, people, 
for a while cease to think of those to whom we are related, who are 
dead; think of something else, for to-morrow we are going to move, 
and these, our relatives, will remain lying here just as they are,” he 
told the people. Then he himself, it is said, ‘‘ Now I shall tell you 
about my own self,” he said to them. “Now this is what you are 
to do,” he said to them. ‘“‘ Now what I desire of these people is that 
they know the way of our sacred pack,” he said to them. 
“T truly love you all; I think less of no one. I have always tried 
to pull you through when something happened to our lives. That was 
when I made these different kinds of minor manitous angry. Now 
verily I am going to leave, to go and report what they think of us. 
They want you no longer to be people. I shall truly depart in the 
direction where the great manitou is, but I do not know if I shall ever 
come back here,” he said to his fellow people, telling about himself. 
As soon as he had told them, then he told his wife, what would 
happen to her; that she would reach an old age. After he had told 
her, then he told the young girls with whom he was living to each take 
a husband unto herself. After he told them that, then he told them 
not to wail over him. Then it is said they saw him no more. Then 
the person who knew the songs went over and lived with that sacred 
pack. Truly, it is said, they had disease no more. The people 
were simply living healthy lives. They depended merely on that 
sacred pack. That is the end of the White Buffalo Sacred Pack. 
That is all, my friends, I have to say. 
