Glooscap the great chief, and other stories - ElectricCanadian.com

WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 37
met another man.
He was hopping along on one
foot, with the other tied close up to his body.
"Why is your leg tied in such a fashion?"
asked the Megumoowesoo.
"To keep from running too fast,"
he replied.
"Why, if I were to untie my leg, I should go
so fast that I should run around the whole
world in just four minutes."
"Let us see you run,"
the travellers said.
So the Swift Eunner untied his leg and was off
like a flash. True enough, at the end of four
minutes back he came from the other direction.
The Swift Eunner then asked:
"Where are all of you going?" And when
they told him he asked whether he might not
go along with them.
"Yes,
we shall be glad to have you,"
the
Megumoowesoo said. "You may be of great
help to our young friend." So all four travel
led on together.
When they had gone a little way further,
they came upon a man, whose nostrils were
closely covered.
"What is the meaning of this?" the trav
ellers
asked:
"I am so powerful," he said, "that if my
nostrils were not covered,
the storm and the whirlwind."
I could not hold back
said. The
"Let us see your power," they
stranger uncovered his nostrils, and at once