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138 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
ing to take the skin from a great bear. He
watched them a moment, and then he said:
"Let me do that for you."
The women, in
surprise, left their work, and Kitpooseagunow,
with one wrench, stripped the skin from the
great beast.
All this time Ablegemoo was in the back
part of the wigwam, selling water to the fam
ishing Indians. He did not see Kitpooseagu
now; he did not know that he was there. Kit
pooseagunow quickly caught up the giant,
and bent him back over his knee. The
sorcerer had been seized so suddenly that he
was taken off. his guard, and could not call
his magical power to his aid. His back was
broken, and Kitpooseagunow threw him out of
the wigwam dead. But from that day the
race of frogs has the crumpled back that Kit
pooseagunow gave them when he killed the
great chief, Ablegemoo.
Now as soon as the wicked chief was dead,
Kitpooseagunow opened all the great bark
dishes that held the water. Instantly the water
rushed out, and filled the rivers and lakes, and
streams; and soon the country about needed
water no longer. And never from that day
was the water taken from them again; for the
wicked old sorcerer Ablegemoo was dead.
Kitpooseagunow returned to the lodge of the
old woman.