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

172 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
One thing he did not know, however, and that
was that the Weasels had gained wisdom by
experience, and were not above playing a trick
of their own.
Now the Weasel girls had promised to marry
anyone who would rescue them, but they had
no intention of doing this. So they planned to
deceive the merry Badger. The elder sister
took off her hair-string, and tied it in a great
many knots among the twigs of the tree, tan
gling it until it would seem a week s work to
unwind it.
When the Badger had very politely climbed
the tree, and had taken the younger Weasel girl
down, he came back for the elder sister.
she was safely on the ground, she said:
When
"I thank you, and now will you be kind
enough to go up the tree again, and get my
hair-string which is caught in the branches! I
prize it very much, and it would break my heart
if it were lost or broken; so you must untie it
very carefully, and while you are gone my sis
ter and I will build a beautiful wigwam, and we
will furnish it as you never saw a wigwam
furnished before/
This the Badger soon found to be true. He
went up the tree after the hair-string, and the
Weasels set to work to make their wigwam.
Now the Weasel girls happened to be friends
of many strange creatures: the Thorns, the