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234 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
the bag. Then he put the bag back into the
hole, and drove the other pigs away to the field
of chickweed, where they were kept busy until
the tide returned and covered the spot where
Coolnajoo had been buried.
When the tide had gone out again, Coolnajoo s
brothers began to feel sorry for what they had
done to him. They went to the spot where they
had buried him, of course expecting to find him
dead. What was their surprise, on opening the
bag, to find, instead of their brother a dead
pig!
Coolnajoo had been watching them from a dis
tance, and when they reached home they found
him astride the ridge-pole, laughing at them.
After this Coolnajoo was more clever than
ever, until at last his brothers could endure him
no longer, and planned once more to kill him.
This time they thought they would do better.
"We will take him to the water-fall," they
said, and throw him in, and let him be dashed
to pieces in the "
rapids.
So they tied Coolnajoo up in a bag again, and
hung the bag across a pole, and started for the
water-fall. But they became hungry on the
way, and put him down by the side of the road,
while they went to an inn to eat.
While they were gone, a drover passed by
and spying the bag, he went up and gave it a
kick, to see what might be in it.