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44 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
together.
said, "Take
Before they went away they always
care of the wigwams while we are
away and do just as you please except for
one thing. On no account touch that large
stone near the pine tree, for, if you do, great
trouble will come upon you.
For a time the maidens were careful to obey
their husbands, and they did not go near the
stone. But at last they began to wonder and
wonder what could be under that stone. Every
day they grew more eager to know. The older
sister was more prudent and firm than the
younger and would never touch the stone; but
the younger at last said, "I shall lift that stone,
and peep underneath, no matter what comes of
it."
So, one day, when the two hunters were in
the forest, the younger sister went to the stone,
and lifted it and looked underneath. She
started back with a scream at the sight. For
she found that they were up above the sky!
Their husbands had carried them up into the
star world while they slept.
The stone covered a hole like a trap door;
far below she saw the world upon which she
had once lived, and the village, and the home
of her childhood.
The older sister heard the
scream, and ran
to the stone. She, too, looked down through
the hole in the roof of the world. Then they