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PREFACE
the memories of childhood, and consider how
I could make use of these but little known
legends. I was surprised to find how eagerly
the children listened to the tales, and how in
sistently they clamoured for more. Since that
summer I have told them to many others of all
ages, in many places, and finding that they have
always aroused deep interest, I decided to re
tell them for a wider public than they have hith
erto reached. And so I am sending them out
for the use of children, parents, and teachers
the story lovers and the story tellers.
The main source from which I have drawn is
Rand s Legends of the Micmacs, published by
Wellesley College from the manuscripts of Dr.
Band purchased for that institution by Profes
sor E, N. Horsford. I have also made some
use of Leland s The Algonquin Legends of New
England, and of Kuloskap the Master by Leland
and Prince. And I have had access to the
Band manuscripts in the possession of the de
partment of comparative philology of Wellesley
College.
Acknowledgments are gratefully made, fore
most of all, to my husband, who has helped me,
step by step, from the beginning to the end of
the book :
To Wellesley College and to the familv of