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82 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
When lie became conscious again, lie found that
he had been changed into a young man, and
that he was near a large Indian village. And
now he knew this to be the country from which
the old man had come. He went at once into
the first wigwam he came to, for this is what
all Indians do when they are in a strange place.
There was an old woman in the wigwam, all
alone. She asked the stranger
honour, and then she began to cry.
to the seat of
"Why do you weep, Noogumee, grand
mother?" he asked her.
"I
weep because you are here,"
the old
woman answered. "Every young brave who
comes seeking the chief s daughter is put to
too. The chief will
death, and you will be,
seem willing for you to marry his daughter,
but he will ask you to do some task so difficult
that you will lose your life."
"
"Never mind, I am not afraid of the chief,
Noojekesigunodasit said. "I will marry one
of his daughters, and he will not be able to kill
me."
In a little while the word went around the
village that a young brave had come from some
far country, and that he wanted to marry one
of the daughters of the chief. When the chief
heard of this, he sent a messenger to Noojeke
sigunodasit.