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the memories of childhood, and consider how I could make use of these but little known legends. I was surprised to find how eagerly the children listened to the tales, and how in- sistently they clamoured for more. Since that summer I have told them to many others of all ages, in many places, and finding that they have always aroused deep interest, I decided to re- tell them for a wider public than they have hith- erto reached. And so I am sending them out for the use of children, parents, and teachers—— the story lovers and the story tellers.

The main source from which I have drawn is Rand’s Legends of the Micmacs, published by Wellesley College from the manuscripts of Dr. Rand purchased for that institution by Profes- sor E. N. Horsford. I have also made some use of Leland’s The Algonquin Legends of New England, and of Kulo’shap the Master by Le- land and Prince. And I have had access to the Rand manuscripts in the possession of the de- partment of comparative philology of Wellesley College.

Acknowledgments are gratefully made, fore- most of all, to my husband, who has helped me, step by step, from the beginning to the end of the book:

To Wellesley College and to the family of