18 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

the direction the Indians had gone, willing the arrow to fall at the door of Mrs. Bear’s wig- wam. It fell as he had willed; and every day Mrs. Bear received an arrow, bearing food, sent by Usitabulajoo.

Usitabulajoo now wished that he and his sis- ter might be grown up at once, they were such little children to be in this deserted place all alone. So he prayed to the Great Spirit to make them into a man and woman at once. That night he carried two logs, as large as a. man, into the Wigwam, and stood one at his head and the other at his feet, and then he said to his sister:

“Numces, little sister, in the morning when I call you, do not arise, or even open your eyes. When you hear me say, ‘The fire is all out,’ do not move; but after a long while get up.”

The sister did exactly as Usitabulajoo di- rected her, and when she opened her eyes she saw before her a grown man—Usitabulajoo had been transformed into a man by the Great Spirit!

The next night Usitabulajoo stood the logs at the head and feet of his sister. In the morn- ing she awoke to find herself grown into a young woman.

Usitabulajoo then made larger weapons—ar- row heads of flint—and went into the forest hunting. One evening he said: