And so the Devil was
dead, and that was the last of him for that turn; but I think he got
over it, for he has been seen many a time since.
In two stories Lox (once as the _loup cervier_) is intimate with
the wolves. Loki was the father of the wolves. Loki is fire: here Lox
dies for want of fire. Since I wrote the foregoing, Mrs. W. Wallace
Brown has learned that Lox is definitely the king or chief of the
wolves, and that many Indians deny that he is really an animal at all,
though he assumes the forms of certain animals. He is a spirit, and the
Mischief Maker. It will be admitted that this brings the Lox much
nearer to Loki.
It is said that when Glooskap left the world, as he took away with him
the kings of all the animals, Lox went with him as king of the Wolves.
This is an identification of him with Malsum, the Wolf, himself.
_How Master Lox played a Trick on Mrs. Bear, who lost her eyesight
and had her eyes opened._
(Micmac.)
Don't live with mean people if you can help it. They will turn your
greatest sorrow to their own account if they can. Bad habit gets to be
devilish second nature. One dead herring is not much, but one by one
you may make such a heap of them as to stink out a whole village.
As it happened to old Mrs. Bear, who was easy as regarded people,
And thought well of everybody, and trusted all.
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