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60 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
them was the chief, who was the largest giant
of all.
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"Son,"
he cried, "what have you there?
Where did you
find that little brother?"
"My father," he answered,
lost in the fog."
"I found him
"Well, bring him home to the lodge, my son,"
said the chief.
So they carried the canoe into the wigwam
of the chief, with the Indian and his wife still
sitting in it. Then they put the canoe under the
eaves, and placed food before the little people
more than they could eat in a week.
The next day two of the chief s sons went out
hunting, and when they returned they carried
about their waists many caribou, as easily as a
Micmac would carry a string of rabbits in his
belt. And besides the caribou there were otters
and beavers hanging from the giants belts.
The next day the giant chief said, "We are
to be attacked. We must be prepared for war.
In three days a terrible Chenoo, with a heart of
ice and stone, will come from the north to de
vour us. We must make ready to meet him."
So two sons of the giant chief, with two other
braves, started out early in the morning of the
third day to meet the cannibal giant Chenoo.
When the time for the battle came, the chief
said to the little people, "Stop up your ears,
and bind your heads, and roll yourselves in