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136 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
And then Kitpooseagunow
him to fall asleep.
burned the wicked old giant s body into ashes,
and gathered the ashes, and blew them into
the air; and so evil had that giant been, that
from the ashes sprang poisonous insects, which
flew about the earth to torment the race of
men!
After this, Kitpooseagunow said :
"I have now avenged the death of our
mother; and now I go
out into
the world to
fight against all the evil spirits, and to destroy
them. So I go to the lodge of the Great Chief,
and he will direct my work among men."
So the brothers set out for the lodge of
Glooscap.
They went into a far country, and
it came to pass as they journeyed, that they
entered a land where there was no water. The
lakes and rivers and streams and even the
springs in the forest were dry and bare. The
Indians were dying of thirst.
Kitpooseagunow and his brother entered a
humble lodge, where lived an old woman with
a little boy. Kitpooseagunow asked for
water.
4 *
Alas,
there is no water!" the old woman
said,
"for
Ablegemoo the giant bullfrog
has taken all the water, and we are dying of
thirst."
Now Kitpooseagunow knew why
been done.
this had
Ablegemoo was a wicked sorcerer,