16 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES pened in the village I came from. Two chil¬ dren came there and people cared for them; but they were Boooins who took the form of children, and they brought sickness and famine upon us all." "What shall we do?" the chief asked her. "We must leave this place, every one of us, and make an encampment far away from here. The two children must be tied together by their heels, back to back, and left hanging from a tree." Again the Indians did as the wicked woman directed. They gathered together all their possessions and hastened away from the vil¬ lage, while one Indian waited behind to bend over a sapling and hang the terrified little children upon it. But the children were not left long in that hor¬ rible plight, for old Mrs. Bear and Marten had waited behind, too. They placed fire against the tree, and soon burned it down. Then little Marten picked the knots that bound the child¬ ren, with his teeth, until at last they were free. "Now we must hurry away after the others, before they miss us," Mrs. Bear said, "but stay in my wigwam and you will be able to find enough game to live upon. You will not starve." The little girl cried. Her mother had tried to kill her, and now she must stay all alone