xiv DWELLERS OF THE BOUNDARIES 



WHISKY-JACK, the Canada Jay. A sharp-tongued Gos 

 sip. 



COUGAR, EAGLE, BUFFALO, ANT, and CARIBOU. 



WIE-SAH-KE-CHACK. Legendary God of the Indians, 

 who could change himself into an animal at will. 



FRANOIS, French Half-breed Trapper. 



NICHEMOUS, Half-breed hunter who tried to kill Muskwa. 



TRAPPERS, HALF-BREEDS, and TRAIN DOGS. 



ROD, The Boy. Son of Donald MacGregor, formerly 

 Factor to Hudson s Bay Company at Fort Resolution. 



When Rod was a little chap, Mooswa had been brought into 

 Fort Resolution as a calf, his mother having been killed, and they 

 became playmates. Then MacGregor was moved to Edmonton, 

 and Rod was brought up in civilization until he was fourteen, when 

 he got permission to go back to the Athabasca for a Winter s 

 trapping with Frangois, who was an old servant of the Factor s. 

 This story is of that Winter. Mooswa had been turned loose in 

 the forest by Factor MacGregor when leaving the Fort. 



THE BOUNDARIES. The great Spruce forests and 

 Muskeg lands lying between the Saskatchewan River, 

 the Arctic Ocean, and the Rocky Mountains being 

 the home of the fur-bearing animals. 



