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would take them at least a week to reach the distant mountain. They travelled on, and to

their astonishment, in the middle of the after- noon—they reached the mountain. When they stood upon the top, Glooscap said, “Look about you.”

The Indians looked, and there before them was their own native village!

Then the Great Chief left them, and returned to his own home in the far west.

When the Indians reached home, no one knew them, at first, they were so changed. But soon they were surrounded by old and young, all eager to hear their wonderful story.

And when they went to their wigwams and were alone, they opened the boxes which they had kept carefully closed as Glooscap had told them. In these boxes there was an ointment, and when they had rubbed the ointment over their bodies, the wish that each one had made to Glooscap was granted.

The one who had been despised and hated and shunned now became beautiful and loved by every one.

The one who wished riches had all he could ask. Success followed him whenever he went upon the hunt, and plenty reigned in his Wig- wam.

And best of all, the man who wished to be