48 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES the pine tree, waiting for some one to rescue them, and now it was almost night. And then, Kekwajoo, the Badger, the mischief maker, came by, in search of mischief as usual. And when the Weasel girls begged him to help them down, he thought he could surely play some prank upon them. So he helped them down. He carried the younger sister first; but when he took the elder sister down, she said, "Would you please go back for my hair-string1? I prize it very much." The Badger very willingly went back for the hair-string, which he found knotted about the tree,—and while he was untying it, the Weasel girls made their escape, and ran away home. Never again did the Weasel girls wish to be star wives! And kespeadooksit—the story ends.