THE DESERTED CHILDREN Part I IN the long, long ago, when Indians were as animals, and animals were as men, there was a great famine and many Indians died. In a certain wigwam there lived Pulowech , an Indian brave, with his wife and two step-chil¬ dren, a boy and a girl. Every day Pulowech went into the forest, in search of food for his family. He could find so little that very often he went without food himself to give the children his share. And one day he did not find any game—not even a single rabbit. What to do he did not know. At last he thought: "I will give them the flesh of my own body to eat; for they must not die." Pulowech had a little magical power, so he took some of his own flesh, and pow-wowed (transformed) it into a rabbit, and carried it home. The children and the mother were happy over their good meal, and Pulowech felt repaid for all the pain he had suffered. In a few days Pulowech did this again to give 11