22 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES wickedness to the old man and the two little children. All they had to eat was the food they had brought with them, and starvation seemed near. Mrs. Bear and Marten were well provided with food every day by the magical arrow sent to them by Usitabulajoo, but no one knew about this. Mrs. Bear was very careful to hide all traces of food in her wigwam. One day, Mrs. Crow remembered the two children they had left hanging by their heels on the tree. She thought that they would make a good meal. She stole away from the village and flew back to the deserted place. What was her surprise, instead of finding two dead little creatures hanging from the tree-top, to see a full-grown man and woman in a well-kept lodge, with plentiful supplies of meat, flaked and dry¬ ing. Mrs. Crow did not stop to ask any ques¬ tions, but at once began eating at the meat. The brother and sister gave her all she could eat, and placed strings of dried meat about her shoulders to carry home. "But see that you tell no one," they said. "On your way home pick mushrooms and have them about your wigwam. If anyone comes in and finds your children eating, say that they are eating mushrooms." Mrs. Crow did as she had been told; and whenever she needed food she flew back to Usitabulajoo and was supplied with more.