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WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 23
But one day, she neglected to gather mush
rooms, and some Indians entered the wigwam.
There was the meat in plain sight!
"Why did you not give us some of this food,
when we are starving ?" they demanded.
"Cah, call,
cah!" cried Mrs. Crow. "The
children whom you tried to murder are well
and grown up. They have their lodge full of
dried meat, while you starve.
"Let us all go hack to them," the Indian said.
So that very day they all turned back to the
deserted village. When they reached the place,
they found everything just as Mrs. Crow had
said.
Mrs. Bear and little Marten were welcomed
home to their own lodge, where they were given
all the choice moose and caribou meat that they
could eat. Their wicked mother came too.
"Are you not glad to see me, my children?
Will you not welcome the mother who fed you
and cared for you when you were babies?" she
asked.
But Usitabulajoo said to her:
"You deserted us for the others, and left us
alone to die; now, go back to them and share
with them what they
receive."
Then others came to the wigwam.
"Give us food, Usitabulajoo," they begged,
we are starving."
Usitabulajoo gave them dried meat
"for
the meat