.WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 99

The next night, sure enough, they heard the great shout of the giant, as he rushed into the village. They hid in the lake until morning, as the Loon3had told them to do. They could hear the screams and the noise while the terrible giant was destroying the village.

After the village was destroyed, and the giant had gone away, they went back to where their old home had been. But they liked the new lodge so much better, that they never moved back to the village.

Day by day the two children and the Loon were together on the rocks by the lake. The Loon taught the boy how to be a swift runner; and how to walk on the water as the Loons do; and then he taught him how to fly in the air, so that he could hunt in all these ways. Then the Loon said:

“Now your family will never be in want of food; but, if you should ever need my help, I will come to you.”

Now, years had passed away, since the day when the little Indian girl had walked on the shore in her robe of bright leaves. She was now a beautiful maiden. She was alone one day by the water, when the Loon came to her, and asked her to be his wife.

“Mogwaar—no,” she said.

But when she went home, she told her mother what the Loon had said.