Glooscap the great chief, and other stories - ElectricCanadian.com

ANIMAL STORIES 165
"Look out, you are burning me!"
The old woman then became angry.
been sound asleep.
She had
"I have not touched you!"
she said.
The Badger waited until the old women were
asleep once more, and then he touched the foot
of the other old woman with the hot coal. First
she dreamed that she was walking on hot sand,
and over roasting rocks in the summer time;
and then she dreamed that the Mohawks were
cooking her at a death fire. Then she awoke,
and seeing where she was, she began to scold
Mrs. Bear for burning her and
; very soon they
were having a merry time of it with their quar
relling.
Now the Badger, seeing the old women scold
ing and fighting, began to laugh and he
; thought
it so funny that he laughed harder and harder,
until at last, he split his sides open, and fell
down dead then and there !
In the morning, there lay the dead Badger
before the door. The old women skinned him,
and dressed him for their breakfast, and
stretched his skin to dry on a bush outside.
Then they hung the kettle; the water was soon
boiling, and they dropped the Badger in. But
as soon as the Badger began to scald, he came
to life. In a moment more he was as alive as
ever! With a great leap, he jumped out of the
kettle; he rushed out of the lodge; he snatched