6 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

withe from an ash tree. So the answer would be, “Oh, it is made of raw-hide,” or, “It is made of a Withe.” The sister would then say, “Let us return to the lodge.”

So try as hard as they might they could not see the hunter.

At last the little scarred girl’s two sisters thought that they would try their luck. They dressed themselves in their prettiest clothes; they made long braids of their hair and wound them with strings of bright little shells; and then they set off for the lodge of Team. But they fared no better than the others, although the eldest sister said that she could see Team.

“Of what is his shoulder strap made?” Team’s sister quickly asked her.

“Of raw-hide,” she answered.

When the three returned to the lodge, the two girls stayed and helped prepare the evening meal, for they thought, “We can surely see him when he is eating.”

But, although they heard the sound of the game dropped to the ground outside the door, and although they could see his moccasins as soon as his sister touched them, they could not see Team. When he ate, as soon as he touched the food, it became invisible.

The maidens stayed all night with Team’s sister, and then in the morning they returned to their Wigwam, cross and disappointed, to