MICHELSON. ] THE LITTLE SPOTTED BUFFALO. 509 
blessing which I have bestowed upon you. And at the time when 
mortal man is remade you will exist as a mortal. For I shall be there 
when the manitous take council over you; such is the blessing I 
bestow upon you, for I know how badly you felt when you lost sight 
of your son whom you loved. You shall love this which I tell you 
as you did your son. That is how you will regard what I tell you. 
And this future generation who shall continue to remember the things 
which I say to you will also obtain life there, and this person who 
will live with (the stone buffalo) and will be there will tell (the 
people),” he was told. “At the time you bring it I shall again tell 
you what you are to do,” he was told. ‘‘ To-morrow, verily, early 
in the morning, you will fetch (the stone buffalo). And this is how 
you will get it. (?) Precisely as it stands you must cause it to stand 
when you remember that I bless you,’’ he was told. That is as much 
as he was told at first. 
And the next day early in the morning he walked off. He walked 
toward the south. He walked in the direction which was selected 
for him. Then, it seems, when he came there at the time set for 
him, toward the south, surely far off, as he still was walking, he saw 
a little buffalo facing toward the east, and where it stood was circled 
with brush, and where it stood was a round ridge of earth. When 
he arrived there walking he said to it, ‘“‘ Well, I sacrifice this tobacco 
to you.” After he stopped to spread tobacco on it, then it seems he 
started to pick it up and carried it off. ‘‘What in the world am I to 
do,” he thought as he went on holding it in his hand. When he 
arrived yonder in the early part of the night he wrapped it in a hide. 
Then he carefully hung it up where he was as he was undressing. 
After he was undressed and had lain down, soon while he was yet 
fast asleep, “‘Come, my grandchild, wake up,”’ he was told by some 
one. As he started to rise out of bed, lo, it was an old man. ‘‘ Well, 
my grandchild, this is why Icome. I am sent on this errand, namely, 
to tell you what you are to do,” he was told. ‘‘'The one who blessed 
you has sent me on the errand,” he was told. ‘‘The chief of the 
buffaloes, the one who owns the buffaloes,” he was told. ‘This is 
what you are to do,” he was told. ‘‘This is how you will arrange 
things. Whenever they dance you will stand (the buffalo) up. You 
will make (the people) dance twice in one year. That is how it is.’ 
That is called a ridge of earth. That is how you will arrange it,” 
he was told. ‘‘(These) are little red feathers, they are white ones 
on the other side,” he was told. ‘And also the manitous who sit as a 
single body are they who shall be worshipped collectively, the one who 
sits fixedly in the East, and the one who sits in the South, and the 
§ The drawing unfortunately was too indistinct to reproduce. 
