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had lost a boy; she always thought of him. Once there came to her a
strange boy; he called her mother.
He had a pipe with which he could call all the animals. He said,
"Mother, if you let any one have this pipe we shall starve."
"Where did you get it?"
"A stranger gave it to me."
One day the boy was making a canoe. The woman took the pipe and blew
it. There came a deer and a _qwah-beet_,--a beaver. They came
running; the deer came first, the beaver next. The beaver had a stick
in his mouth; he gave it to her, and said, "Whenever you wish to kill
anything, though it were half a mile off, point this stick at it." She
pointed it at the deer; it fell dead.
The boy was Glooskap. He was building a stone canoe. Every morning he
went forth, and was gone all day. He worked a year at it. The mother
had killed many animals. When the great canoe was finished he took his
(adopted) mother to see it. He said that he would make sails for it.
She asked him, "Of what will you make them?" He answered, "Of leaves."
She replied, "Let the leaves alone. I have something better." She had
many buffalo skins already tanned, and said, "Take as many as you
need."
He took his pipe. He piped for moose; he piped for elk and for bear:
they came. He pointed his stick at them: they were slain. He dried
their meat, and so provisioned his great canoe.
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