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58 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
When they were busy at their work, the hunt
ers surrounded them. They did not try to cap
ture the bears, but they made a circle about the
boy, drawing nearer and nearer, until they
seized him, and held him fast.
The child screamed and scratched and bit just
like a little bear, and was so wild and fierce that
they could hardly hold him. They carried him
back to the village where he had lived, and the
people said, "Yes,
he is the little orphan boy
who had no home."
And then an old grandmother took him by
the hand. "Little
lonely one,"
she said, "you
shall be alone no longer. You belong to me.
Truly I should be as willing to show you kind
"
ness as was a bear of the forest.
And so the little orphan boy belonged to some
body from that day. And then all the hunters
declared that from that day the lives of the
mother bears should be spared.
And kespeadooksit the story ends.