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98 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
The children went home, and found their
parents in the lodge.
"My father/ the son said,
"a terrible
Kookwes is coming to attack us, and destroy
the town, and he is on the way."
"Who told so!"
you the father asked.
"Kwemoo told us,"
the boy said. "And he
said you must move down to the shore, and
when we hear the Kookwes coming, we must
run into the water and hide there."
"If Kwemoo told you so, it must be true,"
said the old man. "We must go at once."
W^hen the other Indians saw them moving,
they asked:
"Why do you move your lodge?"
The
father told them that a Kookwes was coming.
"Who told you so?" they asked.
"The Loon told my little boy so,"
said the
father.
"Pooh! Your son is not much, and the
Loon is nothing. We will not go!" they an
swered.
But the two children and their parents went
down to the shore, and walked along until they
heard the Loon call three times, and then they
stopped and built a lodge.
The next day the Loon came to the children
when they were alone.
"The Kookwes will reach your village to
morrow night,"
he said.