98 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

The children went home, and found their parents in the lodge.

“My father,” the son said, “a terrible Kookwes is coming to attack us, and destroy the town, and he is on the way.”

“Who told you so?” the father asked.

“Kwemoo told us,” the boy said. “And he said you must move down to the shore, and when we hear the Kookwes coming, we must run into the water and hide there.”

“If Kwemoo told you so, it must be true,” said the old man. “We must go at once.”

When the other Indians saw them moving, they asked:

“Why do you move your lodge?” The father told them that a Kookwes was coming.

“Who told you so?” they asked.

“The Loon told my little boy so,” said the father.

“Pooh! Your son is not much, and the Loon is nothing. We will not go!” they an— swered.

But the two children and their parents went down to the shore, and walked along until they heard the Loon call three times, and then they stopped and built a lodge.

The next day the Loon came to the children when they were alone.

“The Kookwes will reach your village to- morrow night,” he said.