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dicate any blood relationship), Mahli Moninkwess (the wood- 

 chuck), what he could do. She told him to follow a certain road 

 up a mountain. There he found an old man sitting on a rock 

 flapping his wings (arms) violently. This was Wuchowsen, the 

 great wind-blower. He begged Glus-kab(5 to take him up higher 

 where he would have space to flap his wings still harder. So 

 Gliis-kab^ lifted him up and carried him a long way. When they 

 were over a great lake he let Wuchowsen drop into the water. 

 In falling he broke his wings and lay there helpless. 



Glus-kabe went back to sea and found the ocean as smooth as 

 glass. He enjoyed himself greatly for many days, paddling about, 

 but finally the water grew stagnant and thick, and a great smell 

 arose. The fish died and Glus-kabd could bear it no longer. 



Again he consulted his grandmother and she told him that he 

 must set Wuchowsen free. So he once more bore Wuchowsen 

 back to his mountain, first making him promise not to flap his 

 wings so constantly, but only now and then, so that the Indians 

 might go out in their canoes. Upon his consent to do this, Glus- 

 kab^ mended his broken wings, but they were never quite so 

 strong as at first, and thus we do not now have such terrible winds 

 as in the olden days. 



This story was told to me by an old man whom I had always 

 thought dull and almost in his dotage ; but one day, after I had 

 told him some Indian legends, his whole face changed, he threw 

 back his head, closed his eyes, and without the slightest warning 

 or preliminary began to relate, almost to chant, this myth in a 

 most extraordinary way, which so startled me that I could not at 

 the time take any notes of it, and was obliged to have it repeated 

 later. The account of Wuchowsen was added to show the wisdom 

 of Gliis-kabe's advice in the earlier part of the tale, and is found 

 among many tribes. 







STATE INTERFERENCE IN SOCIAL AFFAIRS.* . 



By JOSEPH SHIELD NICHOLSON, D. So., 



PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 



WE are confronted with the limited power of the state and 

 the infinite variety of individual enterprise. To the older 

 economists the difference seemed so great that they considered 

 the presumption against state interference to be established. The 

 rule, it is true, was never absolute and unqualified. Adam Smith 



* From the presidential address before the Section of Economic Science and Statistics of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Nottingham meeting, Sep- 

 tember, 1893 (London Times Report). 



