232 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

sore back you have, so naked and dry! You shall have my lard for salve, and I will rub it on.”

Coolnajoo spread the lard over the dry road, and when it was all gone, he went home.

“Why have you not brought the lard?” the brothers asked, when they saw Coolnajoo re- turning empty—handed.

“ Oh, dear me,” answered Coolnajoo, “I came upon a poor old man, lying in the road, with his back all sore and cracked; and I pitied him, and spread the lard over him.”

“Poor old man!” they said, “we will go and bring him home.” So the brothers started off, with Coolnajoo, but when they came to the cracked road and saw what Coolnajoo had done with the lard, they cried:

“Oh, you stupid, we will never send you any— where again.”

At last Coolnajoo suddenly became as clever as he had been stupid.

One day the two brothers went away and left him at home to take care of the pigs. While they were away, he sold the pigs, but he cut 01? their tails, and stood them up in the quagmire so as to deceive his brothers. When his brothers came home and asked how he had man- aged with the pigs, Coolnajoo said:

“Why, all the pigs broke out of their pen,