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

FAIKY TALES 239
you why you have come. Then you must tell
him that you have come to rescue him."
The boy started out upon his journey along
the road that passed through the thick cloud,
and when he had reached the other side of the
cloud, he saw a large white house, as the stran
ger had told him he would. As he drew near,
the master of the house came out and said :
the
"What
did you come here for?"
"I came here looking for work," answered
"I
boy.
will give you work, if you can take care
of horses,"
the master of the house said.
So the boy stayed to care for the horses.
One day one of the horses spoke to him.
"My brother," he said, "why have you come
here? It is an evil place. I was once as you
are now, and I was set to tending horses as
you are doing, until I,
a horse."
myself, was turned into
"That will not happen to me, my brother,"
said the boy,
"for I have come to rescue
you."
"Alas! You will never be able to do it,"
the enchanted brother said.
One day, soon after this, the boy asked his
master to allow him to take a ride. The master
was willing; so the boy took out his enchanted
brother from the stable, and rode him in the
yard, and then galloped about.