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

THE GIANT S SON AND THE BEAUTI
FUL MAIDEN
IN the olden time there lived giants, who were
fierce and cruel. They were cannibals, and
many of them possessed magical power so the
;
Indians were all the more afraid of them.
In a certain part of the forest, there lived
such a giant with his wife and son. The son
was not like his father; he was just like other
Indians. It was his work to go into the forest
and hunt for the tracks of human beings for
his father. But he hunted animals for his own
food.
One day the young Indian was in a distant
part of the forest, hunting tracks for his
father, when he saw a beautiful Indian maiden.
She was the most beautiful maiden he had ever
seen, and he thought,
"If I could only have this
maiden for my And wife!" he went to her,
and talked with her, and she led the way to her
home. She told him that she lived alone with
her helpless old father and mother, and that
she was the only one to care for them. She
hunted in the forest for animals for their meat,
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