Jack the Young Explorer

one of you boys up into that cottonwood tree there. Knot a couple of those sling ropes together and let us haul that meat up a

oe threw him the end of a sling rope and Jack climbed well into the tree, and then, passing the rope over a branch, the meat was hauled up and t

ack said, "Hugh, a man who was hunting sheep all the

re sheep are plenty you can follow the sheep trails, but sometimes it's just pretty straight up and down climbing over the rocks and in places where, if a man lost his footing, he would roll a long way. I never minded climbing over the rocks, no matter how steep they were, but sometimes

some Indians that hunt sheep a

their name from the fact that they used t

t I've forgotten who they are and where they liv

y that we went through two or three years ago, where those hot springs and spouting geysers are. Sheep

h it in part, and disguised in that way, used to get up within arrow shot of the game. The man's legs were rubbed with white or gray clay, and if he went along in a stooping posture, with his body covered with the animal's skin and the head, it's easy to see how he might get up pretty close to the game. I read a book once written by John Franklin, that man, you know, that was lost up in the Arctic a good many years ago and about whom there was a great deal of excitement at the time, in which he told ho

is is what he told me that his grandfather saw: He was one of a war party of Cheyennes that had gone off to try and take horses from the Snakes. One morning they were traveling along through the mountains, fifteen or sixteen of them, walking through a deep canyon. Presently one of them saw on a ledge of the canyon far above them, the head and shoulders of a big mountain sheep, which seemed to be looking out over the valley. The man pointed it out to the other members of the war party, and they watched it as they went along. After a while it drew back from the ledge, and a little later they saw it again, further along the canyon, and it stood there right at the edge of the precipice and seemed to be looking up and down the valley. The Cheyennes kept watching it as they went a

story, and that brings the fashion these

and used them. Why, Joe here will tell you what he's heard from his grandfather

t. They used to wear a kind of buf

owed themselves enough to make the buffalo wonder what they were, and follow 'em to try to find out. The Indians think that it was the power of the buffalo rock that used to make the buffalo come, but I guess it was just nothi

away. In the same way if a bear sees something that he don't understand, why, he gets up on his hind legs and looks as hard as he can. Of course, all these animals would rather smell than look; their noses tell them the truth and they do

e to the shore and then they would send out a little dog that was trained to run up and down and play about so as to attract the attention of the ducks. The ducks might be sitting far off in a big raft or flock, many of them perhaps asleep; but when they saw the little dog playing, some of them would lift their heads and swim in toward the shore to find out what he was doing. Gradually more and more ducks would lift their heads and swim in, until, finally, the whole flock would be comi

ible lots of ducks and geese stopping in spring and fall to feed, on their way north and south. The Indians, the Sioux anyhow, and likely Chippewas or Saulteaux, when they found a place where these ducks were right plenty, used to strip off and make a kind of a little hat or cap of grass that they'd put on thei

thing, only they fitted a kind of a gourd over their heads and walked around with that, so that i

ed, at the time of the year when they can't fly, and then the dogs and young men would go into the pond on one side and drive out all the birds on the other and there the women and children wo

said Jack, "I re

orms built of willows to hold the eggs up. Then from the top of the ground they dug out a little slanting hole to the bottom of the first hole. Then they covered the big hole with twigs and put grass on that and dirt on the grass. Then they built a fire close to the hole and heated rocks and rolled them down the little side hole, so that they would go into the

ous, wasn't it,

ust think of the way they used to cook in a buffalo hide, or in the paunch of an animal.

ne by means of hot stones put into the water, for, of course, they never had any vessels that could be set over a fire u

told by people that I believe, that these Saulteaux up North used to boil water in their birch bark dishes. They say that they could ha

if you've been told so by people that you believe, but it seems to me that's one