228 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

ter the hair over it, wishing as you do this, that the pasture may be filled with cattle. The next day at the same hour, return to the pasture and claim as your own whatever you find.”

The boy did just as the dream had told him, and the next day he went back to the pasture and there before him were all sorts and sizes of cattle of the finest breeds. He drove the cat- tle home.

“Where did you get all these cattle,” asked the father.

“From the Great Spirit alone,” said the boy.

Soon after this, the dream told the boy to place sheep’s wool in the field and lay the belt upon it, and wish for sheep. The morning after he had done this he found a great flock of sheep in the pasture.

Again, the dream told him how to fill the pas- ture with geese, and then hens, and ducks, and all other animals he might wish. And all this was done by the magical belt.

Now the seven years of magical power were ended. The boy took the belt out into the pas- ture and left it there, for the dream had told him to do this. He never saw the magical belt again, and he had no more wonderful dreamS. But he lived very happily because of the seven years of prosperity the magical belt had given him.