This
she refused to do. He departed; he left her forever. But her father and
mother came to find her. They found her there; they dwelt with her.
Every day she brought to them furs and meat. They asked her whence she
got them. "I have another husband," she replied; "one who suits me. The
one I had was bad, and did not use me well. This one brings all the
animals to me." Then she sent them away with many presents, telling
them not to return until the ice had formed; that was in the autumn.
When they returned she had become white. She was with young, and soon
gave birth to her offspring. It consisted of many serpents. The parents
went home. As they departed she said to them, "When you come again you
may see me, but you will not know me."
Years after some hunters, roaming that way, remembered the tale, and
looked for the wigwam. It was there, but no one was in it. But all the
woods about the place were full of great black snakes, which would rise
up like a human being and look one in the face, then glide away without
doing any harm.
THE PARTRIDGE
_The Adventures of the Great Hero Pulowech, or the Partridge._
(Micmac.)
_Wee-yig-yik-keseyook_. A tale of old times. Two men once lived
together in one wigwam in the woods, on the border of a beautiful lake.
Many hard-wood trees made their pictures in it. One of these Indians
was Pulowech, the Partridge in the Micmac tongue, but who is called by
the Passamaquoddy Mitchihess; but the other was Wejek (M.
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