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154 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
"What is lie going to he do?" thought.
Soon Keoonik returned with a great string of
eels, which the old woman promptly prepared
for dinner.
"If that
"My sakes!" thought Ableegumoch,
isn t an easy way of getting a living! Why
cannot I do that as well as Keoonik? Of
Why not?"
course I can.
And before he left the lodge he had invited
Keoonik to be his guest at dinner on the third
day after that day. Then he hurried home.
"Come!" he said to his grandmother, "we
are going to move our wigwam down to the
lake." He found a place just like that of his
friend, Keoonik, and he soon moved his wig
wam to it, although the grandmother did
not wish to go. Then Ableegumooch built his
ice-road, just like the Otter s. The weather
was freezing cold, and all he had to do was to
pour water down the bank, where it soon froze
and there was his road all ready to slide
upon when he should go fishing, like Keoo
nik!
The next day his guest, Keoonik, came.
When it was dinner time, Ableegumooch said to
his grandmother:
"Noogumee, prepare
the meal."
"But,"
said the old lady,
"there is nothing
to prepare."
"Oh, I will see to that,"
said Ableegumooch.