When he had arrived he soon discovered the tepee of the wakan man. This lodge was of birch bark and was surrounded by a defense of posts covered with bark. The Stone Boy picked up a pebble and cast it hard against the tepee.

Immediately an old man came out and ran around the lodge, looking hither and thither. The boy became a stone and the wakan man could not see him. Three times the boy cast a pebble against the tepee, and three times the old man ran out to see whither the missile had come.

Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera, p. 44