128 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

“Tell him that I will always hunt for him as I do now; but for the others I will hunt animals and fish.”

So that night, when the giant came home, the mother told him about the beautiful maiden.

“He must not bring her here. He cannot have her for his wife,” stormed the old giant.

But after the Wife had told him how much the son wished to marry the beautiful maiden, the giant said, “Well, tell him that he may marry her; but he must build a stone Wigwam far away from here, and never bring her near me.”

When the son heard what his father had said, he hastened away to the home of the maiden, and she became his wife. He took her home, and he and his mother hid her safely from the old giant, until they could build a lodge.

When the lodge was ready, the two went there to live; and the young brave hung in one corner of the Wigwam a small bag made of skins.

“Now mind,” he said to his wife, “that you do not touch this bag; for, if you do, great harm will come to you.” And the Wife said that she would remember.

The years went by, and the young hunter kept his promise to the old people in the far— away forest. They were never in want of