As time went on, Kluskap grew weary of saving people from nasty creatures and listening to their woes. He loved people, but did not wish to live around them all the time. "I want to be only as tall as any Míkmaq man," he decided. "I want a secluded house by a river, where I …

Kluskap delighted in the great variety of beautiful leaves of the fall. He looked forward each season to the array of pleasing colors and after they had dropped he felt sad because of the fleeting beauty that had passed.How delightful it would be if these colors could be with us always, he thought. I'll turn …

Now it is told in another tradition--and men tell even this differently--that pitché, in these old times Glooskap's seven neighbors, who were all so many different animals, took away his family, and that he followed them, even as it has been written, unto Newfoundland. And when he came there it was night, and, finding Marten alone, …