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

THE DESERTED CHILDEEN
PAKT I
IN the long, long ago, when Indians were as
animals, and animals were as men, there
was a great famine and many Indians died.
In a certain wigwam there lived Pulowech, an
Indian brave, with his wife and two step-chil
dren, a boy and a girl.
Every day Pulowech went into the forest, in
search of food for his family. He could find
so little that very often he went without food
himself to give the children his share. And
one day he did not find any game not even a
single rabbit. What to do he did not know.
At last he thought:
"I
will give them the flesh of my own body
for they must not die."
to eat;
Pulowech had a little magical power, so he
took some of his own flesh, and pow-wowed
(transformed) it into a rabbit, and carried it
home. The children and the mother were
happy over their good meal, and Pulowech felt
repaid for all the pain he had suffered.
In a few days Pulowech did this again to give
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