140 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES belonged to another wicked giant. Kitpoosea- gunow seized this, and destroyed it. After this he was content to go on, for he knew that through this act the whole family of these evil doers would be destroyed. All these things happened just as Kitpoosea- gunow had planned. The Kookwes came down to the weir to see what had been trapped. And instead of the usual supply of fish, he found his weir broken and utterly destroyed. In great anger he went to his lodge, where he lived with his family—all as wicked and cruel and fierce as he was. "Ah," he said to his wife. "My weir is de¬ stroyed. You should have been watching it. Now I will destroy you." And in his anger he killed first one and then another of his family, until at last he was left alone in the wigwam. "After all," he said, "it was my own weir, and I should have been watching it myself. I shall destroy myself for that.'' And with that he killed himself. So this whole family of Kookwes was destroyed by the work of Kit- pooseagunow, the Avenger. All this time the brothers were going down the river. At last they came to a place where the water grew rough, and the way narrow, and before them rose a wall of rock. Here the river dropped suddenly into the earth. It