28 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES and then sat down near the shore to rest. Soon she was fast asleep. Out in the deep water Bootup , a great whale, had been watching her, and he became so in¬ terested in her that he wanted her for his wife. When he saw her asleep he swam to the shore, and gently placed her on his back, and set out for his home—a large island in the middle of the ocean. When the sister awoke she found herself be¬ ing carried across the sea. She thought of her brother, a prisoner in his wigwam, but she could not help him now; she was a prisoner herself. By and by the whale reached the island, and as soon as he touched the shore he was changed into a man. He took the maiden to his lodge, where his father and mother and sister lived. They were kind to her, and soon she consented to remain there as Bootup 's wife, and she was called Bootupskw ( Mrs. Bootup ). Now if it had not been for the thought of her brother waiting for her to free him, she would have been happy; for as time passed she had a baby boy to care for. But whenever she was alone she sorrowed for Usitabulajoo. One day Bootupskw's sister-in-law found her weeping. "Why are you mourning so when you are alone?" she asked. "It is for my brother I sorrow," Bootupskw