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

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ANIMAL STORIES 179
they could do was to snatch his mittens, when
the Badger slipped away under cover. Then
the boys returned to their wigwam, and soon
an uncle, Kakakooch, the Crow, arrived. He
hurried after the Badger, and succeeded in
snatching his cap.
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Thank you
! said the Badger. You have
done me a great favour.
I have been getting
quite warm, and now I feel much better.
Soon after, another relative, Kitpoo, the
eagle, arrived. He too started in pursuit, and
managed to get the Badger s coat.
"Oh,
thank you! Thank you!"
called back
the "I
Badger. was just wishing that my
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brother were here to take my coat off for me.
Then came the giant Cidloo, and he vowed
that he would punish the Badger well for all
his mischief. He caught him by his back, and
carried him up to the top of a high cliff, up to
the very top of the sky itself, and set him down.
The Badger could look down upon his native
land, and it was so far away that it looked
smooth and green like a wigwam newly car
The Badger did not feel
peted with fir boughs.
easy in his mind, by any means, but he always
turned everything into sport. So he began to
sing,
country now lost,
Seems clearly to us,
As though it were all spread with boughs.
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