WONDER TALES OP THE FOREST 33 of her. She must go back to her old home. Without waking the others, she took the two boys, still sleeping, and ran with them down to the shore, and plunged into the water. Soon Usitabulajoo awoke, and when he found that his wife and the two children were gone, he called his sister, and together they ran to the shore. There they saw the wife and the two children sporting like whales far out in the water. "You have broken your vow to me, Usitabula¬ joo," she called, "so I am freed from my prom¬ ise. I return to my own land." Then they saw Bootup come speeding toward them from far away and carry the three runaways across the ocean. [Usitabulajoo and Bootupskw watched them, until at last they seemed like a mere speck in the water—and until that, too, was lost in the distance. Day after day the brother and sis¬ ter lingered by the shore, looking across the sea for a glimpse of their loved ones. But they never saw them again. And kespeadooksit—the story ends.