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180 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
Hei, ho, he hum!
Hei, ho, he, hum!
Our country, now lost,
Seems now to us,
To be blue, like the clear, blue sky."
Now the Badger might sing and make sport
if he pleased. The Culloo had not brought him
there for fun, but to give him a dreadful pun
ishment for his mischief and his sins. So the
giant Culloo seized him and threw him over the
edge of the cliff, that he might be dashed to
pieces upon the rocks below.
Down headlong fell the Badger at a terrible
rate, but even then his merriment did not fail
him. His enemy, the Culloo, was closely pur
suing him. The Badger heard him coming,
swishing his wings.
"Hurrah for a race!" called out the Badger,
making a noise to imitate the swish of the
Culloo s great wings.
But as the Badger came nearer to the earth
he grew sober. He was falling so fast, he
knew that he would soon be dashed to pieces
against the rocks.
"Oh, spare my poor backbone!" he shouted
and he said it just in time, for in another in
stant he was dashed into fragments against the
rocks! Now the backbone of the Badger had
been enchanted into safety by the magical cry,