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

WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 133
"Ask our father to make two bows and ar
rows ;
but do not tell him about me.
So the boy asked his father to make the
bows and arrows, as Kitpooseagunow had said.
The next day, after the father had gone hunt
ing, the little boy went to the well.
"My brother," he called,
"will
you not
come out to me?" And Kitpooseagunow, from
away down in the well, called back :
"My
brother, I am coming."
All that day the children played together,
and at night the younger brother went back to
his home in the well.
When the father returned from his hunting
trip, the boy told him about the little brother
in the well. "He is so shy,"
he said,
"that he
will not stay here when you are near. But if
you will gather many bright feathers, he may
like them, and perhaps he will stay here with
us."
The father collected the bright feathers, and
concealed himself in the wigwam. Soon Kit
pooseagunow came in, thinking that no one was
about but his brother.
When the boys were busy at their play, the
father sprang out from his hiding-place, and
seized Kitpooseagunow before he could run
away. Then he held out the bright feathers,
one after another, to the child, until he be
came so interested in the pretty colours that