82 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES When lie became conscious again, he found that he had been changed into a young man, and that he was near a large Indian village. And now he knew this to be the country from which the old man had come. He went at once into the first wigwam he came to, for this is what all Indians do when they are in a strange place. There was an old woman in the wigwam, all alone. She asked the stranger to the seat of honour, and then she began to cry. "Why do you weep, Noogumee, grand¬ mother?" he asked her. "I weep because you are here," the old woman answered. "Every young brave who comes seeking the chief's daughter is put to death, and you will be, too. The chief will seem willing for you to marry his daughter, but he will ask you to do some task so difficult that you will lose your life." "Never mind,—I am not afraid of the chief," Noojekesigunodasit said. "I will marry one of his daughters, and he will not be able to kill In a little while the word went around ihe village that a young brave had come from some far country, and that he wanted to marry one of the daughters of the chief. When the chief heard of this, he sent a messenger to Noojeke¬ sigunodasit.