12 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

his family food. And this time the wife sus- pected what he had done. When he was asleep, she looked at his body and she saw the wounds.

“I will leave him; I will go where I can have plenty of food, and a good home,” the cruel- hearted woman said.

So, after Pulowech had gone into the forest, she put on her prettiest clothes and wound strings of bright shells through her hair; and then she made her eyes look red and sparkling. When she was all ready to go, she turned to her little boy and girl who were watching her.

“I am going to pull up the door-post, and go down the road under it. You must put the post back in its place, and do not tell anyone where I have gone.”

Then she drew out the door-post, and stepped down into the hole, and disappeared from the sight of her children, Whom she was leaving without a word of farewell.

She travelled a long way through the earth, until, at last, she came to an open space, and saw in the distance an Indian village. She hur- ried on, and soon came to a Wigwam, where lived old Mrs. Bear. She went in, and Mrs. Bear said to her:

“We are very poor here. I think you would better go over to the chief’s lodge. His son is in need of a wife.”

Over to the chief’s lodge Mrs. Pulowech hur-