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horns and carefully placed them in their hair. Usitabulajoo watched them with interest, and when they offered him one to put on, he was eager to take it.

But his sister had taken alarm.

“Do not touch the horn; it will be your death,” she whispered.

But Usitabulajoo was suddenly possessed with the desire to do as the others did, so he whispered back, “Numees, my sister, I cannot help it. What my comrades do, I shall cer- tainly do.”

He took the horn and fastened it in his hair as the others had done. Suddenly he felt him- self fastened to it. He tried to take it from his hair; but it could not be moved. Then he saw that it had pierced through the top of the wig- Wam and had wound itself about a tree outside. {Usitabulajoo was a prisoner.

The braves went away exultingly, leaving the sister trying to free her brother. The horn was so hard that she could not make a scratch upon it. But, at last, she discovered that a clam shell would mark it; so her days were spent in digging clams and working hour after hour, sawing at the horn with the shells.

There came a day when the sister found that she had dug all the clams near the shore. She waited until lOW tide, and then she went sadly to the water. She dug her basket full of clams