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

WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 109
he challenged him to a diving match.
Mimkudawogoosk
was quite willing, so off they
started. Down they went into the water, and
after a long time the Loon came up to the top,
but he was dead, and was carried away down
the river by the current. Those on the bank
waited a long time, thinking that Mimkudawogoosk
must have been drowned too, but at last
he rose to the surface and came out of the
water. He rose into the air, shaking the water
from his wings, and went flying over their
heads, for he had changed himself into a seaduck.
So in everything the young men tried, Mimkudawogoosk
always came off victorious, to the
delight of his wife and his father-in-law. But
his wife s sisters and all the young men tried
as hard as they could to do him injury.
At last Mimkudawogoosk decided to stay no
longer with them. So he took his wife and his
sister and his little son, who had come to them,
and the canoe and weapons which his father-inlaw
had provided for him, and made his way
back to his own lodge in the forest where the
sister had spent so many lonely years.
And Jcespeadooksit the story ends.