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140 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
belonged to another wicked giant. Kitpooseagunow
seized this, and destroyed it. After
this he was content to go on, for he knew that
through this act the whole family of these evil
doers would be destroyed.
All these things happened just as Kitpooseagunow
had planned. The Kookwes came down
to the weir to see what had been trapped.
And instead of the usual supply of fish, he
found his weir broken and utterly destroyed.
In great anger he went to his lodge, where he
lived with his family all as wicked and cruel
and fierce as he was.
he said to his
"Ah,"
wife.
"My
weir is de
stroyed. You should have been watching it.
Now I will destroy you."
And in his anger
he killed first one and then another of his
family,
wigwam.
until at last he was left alone in the
"After all,"
he said,
"it was my own weir,
and I should have been watching it myself. I
shall destroy myself for that." And with that
he killed himself. So this whole family of
Kookwes was destroyed by the work of Kitpooseagunow,
the Avenger.
All this time the brothers were going down
the river.
At last they came to a place where
the water grew rough, and the way narrow,
and before them rose a wall of rock. Here the
river dropped suddenly
into the earth. It