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MUSEUM BULLETIN NO. 2. 
night. The next morning my mother came and asked me of 
what I had dreamt. As a matter of fact I had not slept at all 
that night, for I went to the creek to get a drink. However, as 
this was early in autumn, the nights were quite warm; she 
noticed my tracks near the creek and immediately suspected 
that I had left my wigwam. She asked me where I had been 
and I admitted that I had been to the creek for some water. 
She told me to go home, and I had to start all over again, about 
two weeks from that time. This time another lad fasted to- 
gether with me. After four days my parents built me a wigwam 
in a part of the woods far away from the water. I went to this 
place on the evening of the fourth day. The other boy accom- 
panied me. That same night this other boy had a bad dream, 
and when our mothers came to see us the next day, we told his 
mother that he had dreamt of being bitten by a snake, that the 
snake had then made him sick, and that he had finally died. 
After telling of this dream, he was told to go home and I re- 
mained in the wigwam all alone. My parents visited me 
quite frequently, about four times a day. For five days I 
stayed there all alone and it was only on the fifth night that I 
had my dream. It was as follows: — 
I dreamt that I was alongside of a lake and that I had had 
nothing to eat for some time. As I was wandering about in 
search of food, I came upon a large bird ( mon ). This bird 
came over to where I was and spoke to me, saying that I was lost 
and that a party was out searching for me, but that they desired 
not to rescue but to shoot me. Then the bird flew away to a 
lake and brought me a fish to eat. He then told me that I* 
would have good luck in hunting and in fishing and that I would 
live to a good old age. He also told me that I would never be* 
shot by a shot-gun or a rifle, for the bird of whom I dreamt 
belonged to a species that a man rarely finds a chance to shoot. 
From that time on the mon was my (personal) manito. 
FASTING EXPERIENCE (C). 
When I was ten years old my grandmother wanted me to 
fast, so that I might know what blessing I was to receive. I was 
to start in the autumn of the year. At first I was to get just a 
