248 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

sorcerer, his greatest enemy, pushing off with them in a canoe. They were still near the shore, and Glooscap called loudly to the grandmother:

“Noogumee, send me back my dogs.”

These dogs were very small, no larger than mice. The grandmother took a small wooden dish, and put it into the water, and placed the dogs upon it, and they floated back to the shore. Glooscap took up the dogs, and put them into his pocket, and returned to his Wigwam; and his enemy, Winpe, paddled away across the water with Marten and the grandmother.

A long time passed, but Glooscap did not pursue his enemy. Some say that it was three months; some say, seven years. Why he did this no one knows. Perhaps it was so that he could gain greater power; perhaps he had other work to do; perhaps he wished to let his ene- mies suffer. But when the right time came, the Great Chief took his dogs and went down to the shore. He stood and looked far out to sea, and then he began to sing a magic song. It was the song that all the whales obeyed. He watched, and soon a small whale arose fa.“ ofi in the sea. He had heard the Great Chief’s call, and he came swimming to him. When the whale was close to the shore, Glooscap rested one foot upon the whale’s back to try his weight; but he was very heavy, and the whale sank down in the water.