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LEGENDS OF GLOOSCAP 275
"Here is a great magician. But he shall be
tried before he goes, and that bitterly."
Then the sister took the tail of a whale and
cooked it for the stranger to eat. But as it
lay before Glooscap on the platter, the elder
brother came in and said rudely,
"This is too
good for a beggar like you,"
and took it away
to his own wigwam.
Then the Great Chief said, "What was given
to me is mine; so I take it again." And sitting
where he was, he willed for the food to come to
him; and it came flying into the platter. Then
ate it.
Glooscap
The brother said, Surely, he is a great ma
gician but he
;
shall be tried before he goes, and
that bitterly."
When Glooscap had finished eating, the
brothers brought in a great bone, the jaw of
a whale; and the eldest brother, using both
arms, and all of his strength, bent the bone.
Then he handed it to the Great Chief ;
and he,
with his thumb and finger, snapped it like
a pipe stem. And the brothers said again,
"Surely, he is a great magician, but he shall
be tried before he goes, and that bitterly."
Then they brought a great pipe full of the
strongest tobacco. No man could have smoked
it unless he were a magician. They passed the
pipe around, and every one smoked. The
brothers blew the smoke through their nostrils,