Glooscap the great chief, and other stories - ElectricCanadian.com

94 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
All the time the young brave was watching
for an opportunity to use the magical hairstring.
And, at last, when no one was look
ing, he contrived to throw it upon the back of
one of the maidens. He said nothing to her,
and soon after this the young braves went
away.
The next day the Indian was walking alone
in the forest, and he saw, coming toward him,
the maiden whom he had charmed with the
magical hair-string.
"Where are you going?" she asked shyly.
"I am going hunting," he said. "But
whence have you come? And what are you
doing out here all alone? Are you lost?"
"Oh,
no! I am not lost," she replied.
"You had better go back to your wigwam,"
he said, "and I will go with you, and tell your
parents that I found you wandering in the
woods, not knowing the way
When home."
they reached the wigwam, the father
of the beautiful maiden said :
"Would you like to have my daughter for
your wife?"
"I
would," he answered,
"for I am tired of
living alone."
And so they were married. The magical
hair-string had won the beautiful maiden for
the awkward, blundering young brave.
And kespeadooksit the story ends.