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22 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
wickedness to the old man and the two little
children. All they had to eat was the food
they had brought with them, and starvation
seemed near. Mrs. Bear and Marten were well
provided with food every day by the magical
arrow sent to them by Usitabulajoo, but no one
knew about this. Mrs. Bear was very careful
to hide all traces of food in her wigwam.
One day, Mrs. Crow remembered the two
children they had left hanging by their heels
on the tree. She thought that they would make
a good meal. She stole away from the village
and flew back to the deserted place. What was
her surprise, instead of finding two dead little
creatures hanging from the tree-top, to see a
full-grown man and woman in a well-kept lodge,
with plentiful supplies of meat, flaked and dry
ing. Mrs. Crow did not stop to ask any ques
tions, but at once began eating at the meat.
The brother and sister gave her all she could
eat, and placed strings of dried meat about her
shoulders to carry home.
"But see that you tell no one," they said.
"On your way home pick mushrooms and have
them about your wigwam. If anyone comes in
and finds your children eating, say that they are
eating mushrooms.
"
Mrs. Crow did as she had been told; and
whenever she needed food she flew back to
Usitabulajoo and was supplied with more.