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not be this winter that I shall leave you, but this summer. I do not 
know if you are unwilling (for me to leave you), as I am very feeble. 
I shall leave you, my grandchild, yet I shall tell you the time when I 
leave you,” he was told by his grandfather. 
He became very fond of his grandfather. He fasted there very 
earnestly the entire winter. In the spring he used it (the fasting 
instrument) up. The very last time he painted himself he had not 
eaten for four days. At night he fetched mud for his grandfather to 
paint his body. As he slept he soon was addressed by one person: 
“Well, eat. I bless you. This is what will happen to you: Look at 
me,” be was told. As he looked that way, (the other) was sunshine 
and shade (?). As he looked at it, it started to begin to move. 
Before he saw it sufficiently long to recognize it, it already was going 
out of sight, and soon it again came into view. ‘‘ That is what you 
will do. This day you saw I went out of sight, but for a moment. 
And I went as far as this earth extends. No one would be able to 
overtake me. Nothing hinders me. Though I dwell a little above 
yet I shall use this shadow (?). If I run, not even if there is a forest, 
if I go at full speed, do I halt in my flight. It seems as if it will be 
clear so that I may run through. You must not think ‘he desires to 
overtake me,’ if anyone starts in pursuit of you; for you know how 
these clouds start to cast their shadows. That is how you will be, 
my grandchild. Verily I am called the greatest cloud,” he was told. 
Then he awoke. 
The next day he began to cook for himself. After he cooked for 
himself he ate. After he had eaten he went and sat down where his 
grandfather was lying down. ‘‘ This is what I have dreamed again, 
erandfather,”’ he said to him. Then he began to tell him what he 
dreamed. After he told him (he was told), ‘‘ That is really fine, my 
erandchild. You always make an advance in preparing your body. 
Do your best. For if you listen to an elder person you will lead your 
life rightly. That is why those instructed from time to time are told 
(to do so). Now you have obeyed me, and this is why you continue 
to know more and more what will happen to you. Now if you had 
been merely bad the manitous would not have thus blessed you as 
you are blessed this day. And you will greatly aid the people and 
you will derive benefit from it. Sometimes one employed is given a 
horse or finery when sent far off. Nor do those who have been 
blessed to be swift runners become tired. I am very proud indeed, 
my grandchild,” he was told by his grandfather. 
He again merely ceased fasting earnestly and began hunting; he 
was working when not hunting. He was a very good boy. Exactly 
at harvest time once he and his grandfather were sitting alone. ‘‘ My 
grandchild, come and sit down here,” he was told. He went and sat 
down comfortably where the other was lying down. “Well, my 
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