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14 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
Mrs. Bear promised them this, and then the
two children said:
"When
we see her we will pretend that we
do not know her."
The children were very hungry, but Mrs.
Bear had no food at all in her wigwam.
"I wish I had some food for you," she said,
"but if you will go over to the chief s lodge,
your mother will surely give you plenty of
meat."
So the two little deserted children went over
to the chief s lodge, and there before them was
their mother, looking as pretty and happy as if
she had never done a wrong deed in her life.
They sat down near the doorway, waiting
quietly to be spoken to.
"Little
strangers, are you hungry?" she
asked. They looked up at her and answered:
"We have great hunger. Will you give us
food?"
Their mother took some strings of dried meat
and wrapped them about the children s should
ers.
There is meat for you ; but you must go to
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another wigwam to cook it,"
she said.
The children hastened back to the wigwam
of Mrs. Bear. Mrs. Bear cooked their food,
and all feasted upon it.
Now every day the mother gave the children
food, and Mrs. Bear allowed them to live with