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18 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
the direction the Indians had gone, willing the
arrow to fall at the door of Mrs. Bear s wig
wam. It fell as he had willed; and every day
Mrs. Bear received an arrow, bearing food, sent
by Usitabulajoo.
.Usitabulajoo now wished that he and his sis
ter might be grown up at once, they were such
little children to be in this deserted place all
alone. So he prayed to the Great Spirit to
make them into a man and woman at once.
That night he carried two logs, as large as a
man, into the wigwam, and stood one at his
head and the other at his feet, and then he said
to his sister:
"Numees, little sister, in the morning when
I call you, do not arise, or even open your eyes.
When you hear me say,
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The fire is all out, do
not move; but after a long while get up."
The sister did exactly as Usitabulajoo di
rected her, and when she opened her eyes she
saw before her a grown man Usitabulajoo had
been transformed into a man by the Great
Spirit!
The next night Usitabulajoo stood the logs
at the head and feet of his sister. In the morn
ing she awoke to find herself grown into a
young woman.
Usitabulajoo then made larger weapons axrow
heads of flint and went into the forest
hunting. One evening he said: