134 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES he forgot his fear, and was willing to stay and live with his father and brother in the wigwam. One day Kitpooseagunow said: "The time is near when I must avenge the death of my mother. Help me, my brother, to gather dried bark." The boys gathered dried bark, and piled it up in the wigwam, until there was scarcely room to move about. Then they made large heaps of it outside. When the father returned from his hunting, he chided the children for making the wigwam so untidy. Then, as he sat by the fire he fell asleep, for Kitpooseagunow was coming into his magical power, and had made him sleepy. As the father sat nodding by the fire, the boys lighted the bark, and went outside and fastened the door. "The time has come for our father to die," Kitpooseagunow said. Soon they heard their father calling to them, and Kitpooseagunow answered: "I have come to avenge the death of our mother. You left her to be devoured by the Koohwes, and now you must die." Then the boys set out for the lodge of their grandfather—the terrible Kookwes. On the way they passed a birch tree. Kitpooseagunow broke a small branch from a fir tree near by,