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148 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
for your father would have but little love for
me.
The young man tried to persuade her to go
with them but she only answered sorrowfully:
"No, it cannot be."
So they went home without her.
Now the elder brother was so proud of their
great luck in hunting that he must tell all that
had befallen them, and about the young maiden
who had come to be their housekeeper.
Then the father became very angry, and
said:
"All
my
life I have feared this. This
woman, I may tell you, is a devil of the woods,
a witch of the Mitche-hant, a sister of the
Oonaligamess, the goblins, and of the Ke tahks,
"
the ghosts.
He spoke so earnestly and so long of this
thing that they were afraid, and the elder,
urged on by his father, went forth to slay
the maiden. And the younger brother fol
lowed him afar off.
They sought her by a stream, and found her
bathing. When she saw them coming, she ran
up a little hill. And, as she ran, the elder
brother shot an arrow after her. It struck her
back, and they saw that there was a strange
flurry about her, and a scattering, as of
feathers; and then they saw a little grey bird
arise from the ground and fly away.