58 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES When they were busy at their work, the hunt¬ ers surrounded them. They did not try to cap¬ ture the bears, but they made a circle about the boy, drawing nearer and nearer, until they seized him, and held him fast. The child screamed and scratched and bit just like a little bear, and was so wild and fierce that they could hardly hold him. They carried him back to the village where he had lived, and the people said, "Yes, he is the little orphan boy who had no home." And then an old grandmother took him by the hand. "Little lonely one," she said, "you shall be alone no longer. You belong to me. Truly I should be as willing to show you kind¬ ness as was a bear of the forest." And so the little orphan boy belonged to some¬ body from that day. And then all the hunters declared that from that day the lives of the mother bears should be spared. And kespeadooksit—the story ends.