136 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

him to fall asleep. And then Kitpooseagunow burned the wicked old giant’s body into ashes, and gathered the ashes, and blew them into the air; and so evil had that giant been, that from the ashes sprang poisonous insects, which flew about the earth to torment the race of men!

After this, Kitpooseagunow said:

“I have now avenged the death of our mother; and now I go out into the world to fight against all the evil spirits, and to destroy them. So I go to the lodge of the Great Chief, and he will direct my work among men.”

So the brothers set out for the lodge of Glooscap. They went into a far country, and it came to pass as they journeyed, that they entered a land where there was no water. The lakes and rivers and streams—and even the springs in the forest-—were dry and bare. The Indians were dying of thirst.

Kitpooseagunow and his brother entered a humble lodge, where lived an old woman with a little boy. Kitpooseagunow asked for water.

“Alas, there is no water!” the old woman said, “for Ablegemoo—the giant bullfrog— has taken all the water, and we are dying of thirst.”

Now Kitpooseagunow knew Why this had been done. Ablegemoo was a wicked sorcerer,