THE OGRE

E-ish-so-oolth's husband was a mighty man, greater than any Indian

on the coast. His limbs were rugged as the wind-swept fir which

grows upon the stormy outer shores. His thick and matted hair fell

in tangles over his great shoulders, and his sullen eyes looked from

out his forehead with angry stare. Cruel as the gaunt and hungry

timber wolf, such was the mate of dread E-ish-so-oolth. Beside him,

Eut-le-ten had no length of arm or strength of limb with which to

fend himself, still less attack this giant of the gloomy forest

track, but he possessed weapons more potent than the brutal strength

of this vile chehah man. A spirit child he was, a heaven sent boy,

whom no evil ever could destroy.

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