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178 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
"A seal skin strap,
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she would not be imposed upon. The Badger,
seeing this, suddenly seized her and bound her.
Then after he had eaten as much venison as
he could, he started out upon his journey in
search of the Weasel girls.
Soon afterward the little Culloo boys reached!
home, and there they found their mother bound
and helpless.
"Who has done this wicked deed?" they
cried.
"A
Badger was here, and he tried to make
me believe that he belonged to our tribe. He
even sang one of our lullabys to me ;
and when
I would not believe him, he seized me and bound
me."
"Why, he is the very person who met us, and
said that he was a Culloo," they cried. "He
learned that song from us, and then he broke
our bows, and sent us away around to the other
side of the river."
While they were talking, they had untied the
mother.
"Now we will pursue that Badger and avenge
his insults,"
they said.
They followed after the Badger, and teing
of the bird tribe, they could travel much faster
than he could, and goon overtook him. But all