264: GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

So Glooscap took the paddle, and soon they were far out at sea. By and by a whale glided by, and Kitpooseagunow plunged his spear into the back of the great creature and held it lightly above his head, as though it were a trout, although it reached above the clouds. Then he tossed it into the canoe.

“There, that will do,” he said; “let us re- turn.”

When they reached the shore, KitpOOSeagu— now took a stone knife and split the whale end to end in two equal parts. He gave one half to Glooscap, and took the other half for him- self. Each carried home his portion, and roasted it for his evening meal, and then ate every morsel!

After the contest with Kitpooseagunow, the Great Chief travelled homcward, taking with him Marten and the grandmother, and at last they reached the lonely point of land, high above the water, where the Great Chief had his Wigwam. And then Glooscap hung strings of beautiful beads and wampum about the old grandmother’s neck, and made her young and beautiful again; and he made wonderful stones for her—the turquoise, and agate, and a cave full of purple amethyst—to make her so happy that she would forget the sufferings she had endured from Winpe, the giant sorcerer.