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own skill in magic. So he determined to freeze Glooscap, if he could. As night set in, he brought in an armful of wood, and said, “We will have a cold night; the sky is red.”

So the two sat and smoked through the night, and talked. It grew colder and colder, until the cold put the fire out; and then the old wife and the grandmother and Marten died. But the two magicians talked on until morning as though nothing had happened.

In the morning Glooscap brought Marten and the grandmother and the old wife to life, and then he invited his friend to feast with him in the evening.

The Great Chief now built a lodge, and in the evening the magician came to visit him. After the feast, the Great Chief said, slyly, “There will be a great frost to-night; the sky

was red at sunset.” Then the magician knew that Glooscap would

take his turn at magic.

Glooscap made a blazing fire, and the two smoked and talked as they had done the night before, as though nothing were happening. It grew colder and colder, until the fire died out and grandmother and Marten again died of the cold, although the Great Chief had wrapped many furs about them. Then the poles of the Wigwam snapped, and the trees and the great rocks outside cracked and fell in pieces.