LEGENDS OF GLOOSCAP 275

“Here is a great magician. But he shall be tried before he goes, and that bitterly.”

Then the sister took the tail of a whale and cooked it for the stranger to eat. But as it lay before Glooscap on the platter, the elder brother came in and said rudely, “This is too good for a beggar like you,” and took it away to his own Wigwam.

Then the Great Chief said, “What was given to me is mine; so I take it again.” And sitting where he was, he willed for the food to come to him; and it came flying into the platter. Then Glooscap ate it.

The brother said, “Surely, he is a great ma— gician; but he shall be tried before he goes, and that bitterly.”

When Glooscap had finished eating, the brothers brought in a great bone, the jaw of a whale; and the eldest brother, using both arms, and all of his strength, bent the bone. Then he handed it to the Great Chief; and he, with his thumb and finger, snapped it like a pipe stem. And the brothers said again, “Surely, he is a great magician, but he shall be tried before he goes, and that bitterly.”

Then they brought a great pipe full of the strongest tobacco. No man could have smoked it unless he were a magician. They passed the pipe around, and every one smoked. The brothers blew the smoke through their nostrils,