276 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

but when the pipe came to Glooscap, he filled it full again, lighted it, and with one pull burned all the tobacco into ashes, and blew all the smoke through his nostrils at one puff.

Then the brothers were angry, and said again, “This is indeed a great magician, but he shall be tried before he goes, and that bitterly.”

They tried again to smoke With him. They closed the Wigwam and hoped to smother him in smoke. But Glooscap sat and smoked away as though he were on a mountain top. At last the brothers could bear the smoke no longer, and they said, “This is idle. Let us go and have a game of ball.”

The place Where they were to play was on a plain, and Glooscap saw that the ball with which they played was a hideous skull. It was alive and snapped at his heels when it rolled. If he had been as other men, and had been bitten so, it would have taken 01f his foot. But Glooscap laughed and said, “So this is the game you play. Good! But let us each have a ball.”

With that he stepped to a tree on the bank of the river, and broke ofi the end of a bough. At once this turned into a skull ten times more terrible than the other.

The giants ran before this horrible ball; but it pursued them, and they fled from the field.

Then the Great Chief stamped upon the sand, and the waters arose and flooded the place,