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12 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
his family food. And this time the wife sus
pected what he had done. When he was asleep,
she looked at his body and she saw the wounds.
"I will leave him; I will go where I can have
plenty of food, and a good home," the cruelhearted
woman said.
So, after Pulowech had gone into the forest,
she put on her prettiest clothes and wound
strings of bright shells
through her hair; and
then she made her eyes look red and sparkling.
When she was all ready to go, she turned to her
little boy and girl who were watching her.
"I am going to pull up the door-post, and go
down the road under it. You must put the post
back in its place, and do not tell anyone where
I have gone."
Then she drew out the door-post, and stepped
down into the hole, and disappeared from the
sight of her children, whom she was leaving
without a word of farewell.
She travelled a long way through the earth,
until, at last, she came to an open space, and
saw in the distance an Indian village. She hur
ried on, and soon came to a wigwam, where lived
old Mrs. Bear. She went in, and Mrs. Bear
said to her:
are very poor here. I think you would
better go over to the chief s lodge. His son is
in need of a wife."
Over to the chief s lodge Mrs. Pulowech hur-