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dressed the animal, drying and smoking the meat 

 over a fire. The next day a malicious giant 

 visited her wigwam, and in two meals ate the entire 

 store of moose meat. By the brother's order, 

 however, the sister had cured the scalp of the 

 moose for a "medicine bag."^ This served as a 

 charm, through whose agency she was enabled to 

 escape from the giant, and from the other perils 

 of the woods. But arriving in a village, and 

 forgetting her brother's warning, she carelessly 

 allowed the medicine bag to leave her possession. 

 Thereupon the brother came to life in the form of 

 an ogre, and proceeded to institute a miscellaneous 

 massacre, which included the absent-minded sister 

 among its victims.^ 



Team, in still another folk-tale of the imagi- 

 native Algonquins, is represented as a young 

 Indian who was a very successful hunter. 



"Once, when he was off hunting, he began to 

 feel lonely, and he said, *I wish I had a partner.' 



7 An early missionary tells of a medicine bag made from the skin of 

 an entire moose-head, except the ears. This was used by an Indian 

 sorcerer for his personal "medicine" or "manitou." — Jesuit Relations 

 (Cleveland, 1898), vol. xxii., p. 317. 



^Legends of the Micmacs, 1894, p. loi. This story was related to 

 Dr. Rand by an Indian woman in Prince Edward Island in 1848. Le- 

 land, in the Algonquin Legends of New England, p. 140, tells another 

 legend in which Team, the moose, figures, but in this case Team is 

 simply a man, to whom was given the designation "Moose," as a sort 

 of surname. 



