MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
out again, and pulled off another icicle. North groaned again.
North's son said, "Stop doing that. Those are my father's fingers." She was eating North's fingers.
When the tide was out, North's son said, " Let us go down now and get limpets." While they were there, a noise was heard from North's house. He was angry because his daughter-in-law had pulled off some of his fingers.
So North began to blow. North's son called at once to his wife, but she said, "Wait!" Even while she said so, the place where she stood became icy. Then the tide began to come in. When it reached her knees, the snow fell. Then North's son left her. The ice formed all around her. Where North's house stood the snow fell so thickly that it looked like smoke.
Then the woman cried to her father. She was not disturbed because she thought her father would save her. She sang, "Father, I am cold! Father, I am cold! I want to go to my father!"
Even at once came the Southeast wind, "Hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi," making it rough right up to the shore. She began to sing another song. The wind blew upon me! The wind blew upon me! The wind blew upon me from Cape St. James!"
Now she had waited two days. Then she felt of the
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