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LEGENDS OF GLOOSCAP 261
"How! How! How!" inviting every one to
the feast.
Now the chief had two unmarried daughters,
and Glooscap ad
both of them very beautiful ;
vised Mikchichk to seek one of them as his wife.
"Long ago, I gave up all thoughts
of secur
ing a wife/ said Mikchichk. "I do not please
"
maidens.
"But
I will make you pleasing to every one,"
said the Great Chief. So Glooscap gave
Mikchichk coat and leggings, and best of all,
his magical belt. And Mikchichk was no longer
an ugly, deformed old man! The magical belt
had transformed him into a young and hand
some Indian brave. He went to the feast, and
he could leap and run and play ball and wrestle
as well as any one there.
But in the midst of his enjoyment he met
with disaster. It was in a game of ball;
Mikchichk caught the ball, and was running
for dear life to the post, dodging right and
left to avoid his pursuers for all the other
braves in the game were jealous of the hand
some stranger, and all had joined in the pur
suit. Mikchichk was driven straight to his
own lodge. There was nothing left for him to
do in order to escape, but to make a great spring
over the lodge. Mikchichk tried to do this, but
he missed his aim, and was caught on the ridge
pole, just over the chimney-hole.