HOW GLOOSCAP DEFEATED THE SOK- CEREES IN the olden time there was a man who had three sons and a daughter. All were ma¬ gicians and giants. They ate human flesh, and did everything that was horrible and wicked; and the world soon grew tired of them and all their doings. Yet when these people were young, Glooscap had been their friend. He had made the father his adopted father; the brother, his brother; and the sister, his sister. As they grew older, and he began to hear on every side about their evil deeds, Glooscap said: "I will go among them, and see whether this is all true. If it is,—they shall die. I will not spare one of those who devour men and op¬ press them, I do not care who he may be." So the Great Chief went to the sorcerers. It happened that their father had but one eye. Glooscap made himself like him, so like him that in no way were they different. He went to the wigwam, and sat down by the old man. The brothers came in, and seeing the newcomer so like their father, they said: 274