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by them Glooscap-week (Glooscap’s Home). Once Dr. Rand asked an Indian whether he really believed that such a person as Glooscap ever lived. The Micmac looked at him in sur- prise.

“Why!” he exclaimed, looking about him, “Why, all dese pitty stones, him, he makum!”

Surely this was conclusive evidence!

Another Indian, Stephen, said of Glooscap:

“He is- not far from any of the Indians.” And the Micmac, Benjamin Brooks, said:

“The Indians did not know where he was, and therefore they did not know which way to go; but they knew that while he was with them he was never very far away, and that he could always be found by those who diligently sought him.”

And still another spoke of the Master in these Words:

“He loved mankind, and whenever he might be in the wilderness, he was never very far from any Indian. He dwelt in a lonely land, but whenever they sought him they found him.”

“These were his very words,” writes Dr. Rand, “and he had no idea that he was using almost the exact words of Holy Writ with ref- erence to God.”

“This remarkable personage,” the mission- ary continues, “figures in all their atookwo-