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80 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
Little Noojekesigunodasit travelled on,
and
on, and on. At last, one day, he met a very
old Indian. The old man s hair was long and
grey.
"Whither away, my child; and whence do
you comer the old man asked him.
"I have come a long, long way," said the
child. "And
you where are you from?"
"You
say, my child, that you have come a
long, long way!" replied the old man. "But I
ah! The distance you have travelled is noth
ing beside the long way I have come, for I was
a small boy when I started upon my journey;
and since that day I have never halted; and
you see that now I am very old.
"But, tell said me," Noojekesigunodasit,
"where that country is. I will go to that place
whence you came."
"Ah, my
country,"
child! You can never reach that
replied the old man.
"But I will try/ said the boy. Then he hap
pened to look at the old man s feet, and he
saw that his moccasins were old and worn. He
quickly opened his bundle of moccasins.
"I have many moccasins, which my mother
made for me. Take of them." And Noojeke
sigunodasit put the pretty new moccasins upon
the old man s feet. Then he started along the
path the old man had just travelled.
"Wait,
here is a little gift for you!"
the old