LEGENDS OF GLOOSCAP 279 married, nor had a child, he knew nothing of the way of managing children. But, like all such people, he felt very certain that he knew all about it, So he turned to the baby with a sweet smile, and bade the little one come to him. The Baby smiled back at the Great Chief, but he did not budge. Then the Master spoke sweetly, and made his voice like the sound of a summer bird, but it was of no avail, for Wasis sat still and sucked his maple sugar, and looked at Glooscap with untroubled eyes. And then the Master frowned as in great anger, and spoke in an awful voice, and ordered Wasis to come crawling to him at once. Baby burst out into wild tears and screams—but for all that he did not move one inch. Then the Master, since he could do but one thing more, tried that. Glooscap had recourse to magic. He used his most dreadful spells; he sang the songs which raise the dead, and scare the devils, and drive the witches to their graves, and bend the great pines in the forest. And all the time Wasis sat and looked at him admiringly, and seemed to think it interesting —but for all that he did not stir. So in despair Glooscap gave up, for he had no more arts. And Wasis, sitting on the floor in the sunshine, went, "Goo! Goo!" And to this day, when you see a baby, quite