THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE LITTLE SPOTTED BUFFALO. 
Now this is an old story of what the people a long while ago, a 
very long while ago, did, some time before the white man came here 
' on (this) island. 
Now it seems there was a man, a young man, who married. He 
was a fine fellow. After he married, soon he had a child. It was 
a little boy they had for their child. Well, soon when it had grown 
large, their little son began to be ill. He became sicker, and sure 
enough their little son died. Soon after (their son) died his wife 
likewise began to be ill. (It was) for a short time, and then she 
also died. 
After his son and wife died, then it seems he began fasting in the 
winter, wailing all the while. ‘‘Surely the manitou could not have 
made us,” he said as he cried out. He went around weeping and 
putting down tobacco, giving everything, even water, a smoke. 
“Well, I hand this Indian tobacco to you as I do not know what my 
future life will continue to be,” he said to water, rocks, every little 
thing that looked strange to him. Suddenly he made burnt offerings 
(of tobacco) to trees, wailing all the while. Soon he went around 
wailing at dusk. This is how he sang when he often went around 
wailing: 
Cry, ery, for myself; 
Cry, ery, for myself; 
Cry, ery, for myself; 
Cry, ery, for myself. 
That, it seems, is (the song) he used. He always used that song 
when he painted (his face with charcoal). 
“Where, pray, are ye, manitous,’ he said. And he said to the 
manitous, ““Why do you make mortals as they die?”” He quarreled 
with them without reason. “Have pity upon me,” he said to them 
without reason. As often as it was winter for four years that man, 
it seems, fasted far off. He who found the little buffalo was the one 
first to be blessed. Finally, it seems that later on he was soon 
addressed by one being, ‘‘ Well, try to cease wailing; I shall bless 
you,” he was told. “Verily, I in turn shall live with you as long as 
this earth remains an earth; such is the extent of the blessing I 
bestow upon you. Kyen yonder at the time the manitous set for 
the planting of their earth is the extent of the time I set for this 
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