6O GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

them was the chief, who was the largest giant of all.

“Son,” he cried, “what have you there? Where did you find that little brother?”

“My father,” he answered, “I found him lost in the fog.”

“Well, bring him home to the lodge, my son,” said the chief.

So they carried the canoe into the Wigwam of the chief, with the Indian and his Wife still sitting in it. Then they put the canoe under the eaves, and placed food before the little people —more than they could eat in a week.

The next day two of the chief’s sons went out hunting, and when they returned they carried about their waists many caribou, as easily as a Micmac would carry a string of rabbits in his belt. And besides the caribou there were otters and beavers hanging from the giants’ belts.

The next day the giant chief said, “We are to be attacked. We must be prepared for war. In three days a terrible Chenoo, with a heart of ice and stone, will come from the north to de- vour us. We must make ready to meet him.”

So two sons of the giant chief, with two other braves, started out early in the morning of the third day to meet the cannibal giant Chenoo. W’hen the time for the battle came, the chief said to the little people, “Stop up your ears, and bind your heads, and roll yourselves in