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His sleep is haunted by visions, and the form which first or most often appears is that of his guardian manitou, a beast, a bird, a fish, a serpent, or some other object, animate or inanimate. This, in the modern language of the forest and prairie, is known as his "medicine."
"Then," said Robert, "it's time for Manitou to send a heavy mist that we may escape in it." "Manitou can work miracles for those whom he favors," said Tayoga, "and now and then he sends them, but oftenest he withholds his hand, lest we become spoiled and rely upon him when we should rely upon ourselves." "You never spoke a truer word, Tayoga," said the hunter.
He is right when he says that Leetil Tim and I have come to your rescue, but he is wrong when he says we come alone. It is true that there are no men at our backs to help us, but is not Manitou behind us in front around? It was Manitou who sent us here, and it was He who gave us the victory."
He carries light wherever he goes. Such as he are needed among us. Because of that I never believed that Manitou had yet taken him to himself. The rangers stopped here, sat on these fallen logs, and ate food at noonday. There are little bones that they threw away, and the birds, seeking shreds of food, are still hopping about."
I've got a lot to do to-day, but it's in hand, and I don't have to fuss. You'll not forget the wig you'll bring it round yourself?" "Suh. No snoopin' into the parcel then. But if you go to Manitou to-night, how can you have that fiddler?" "He comes at nine o'clock. I'll go to Manitou later. Everything in its own time." He was about to leave the shop when some one came bustling in.
But the workmen had not finished the trench when night came and, to the surprise of Colonel Howell and Paul, the Gitchie Manitou had not returned.
Only to the Romany people would his last resting-place be known; it would be as obscure as the grave of him who was laid: "By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave." Many people from Manitou and Lebanon watched the long procession pass, and two remained until the last wagon had disappeared over the crest of the prairie.
The faithful sunset-tinted face of Blackbird, immovable as a fixed star, regarded the battered cobbler as it might have regarded a great manitou when the island was young. "How did you come by this, Owen?" "I come by it from one that had throuble. Has yerself iver seen it before, John McGillis?" "I have." "Is it a towken that ye're not a widdy?" "It is."
Fungi decked the cliffs above us: colossal, petrified fungi, painted Indian fashion. At any rate, there is a kind of wild, out-of-door, subdued harmony in the rock-tints upon the exterior slopes of the famed Garden of the Gods, quite in keeping with the spirit of the decorative red-man. Within that garden color and form run riot, and Manitou is the restful outpost of this erratic wilderness.
This manitou piled the heavy blocks of Devil's Door-Way and set up Black Monument and the Pedestalled Bowlder as thrones where he might sit and view the landscape by day for the Indians appreciated the beautiful in nature and supposed their gods did, too while at night he could watch the dance of the frost spirits, the aurora borealis.
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