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LEGENDS OF GLOOSCAP 263
helper of Glooscap, but this did not prevent
their having a hearty contest of magic, in which
they both were nearly killed. As the two
giants talked that evening in the wigwam,
they called up a great frost by their magic, and
the trees were torn up by their roots, and the
great rocks were split; and all within the wig
wam were frozen to death, except the two
magicians, who barely escaped with their own
lives.
In the morning they brought their dead com
panions to life, and then Kitpooseagunow said
to Glooscap:
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To-night, let us go out in the seas in a
canoe and catch whales by torchlight.
Nothing could please the Chief better, for he
was a great fisherman.
Now when Glooscap and Kitpooseagunow
reached the shore, Glooscap could see plenty of
rocks lying about, but there was no canoe.
Kitpooseagunow picked up the largest of the
rocks, and put it upon his head, and at once it
became a great, beautiful canoe, large enough
to carry ^He two giants. Then he took up a
smaller stone, and this became a paddle. Then
he split off a great splinter from a ledge of
rock, and this was changed into a spear.
"Who will sit in the stern and paddle, and
who will take the spear?" asked Glooscap.
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"I will take the spear, said Kitpooseagunow,