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all over. If there are a number of people round 

 one fire, and it is necessary to lie stretched out 

 like the spokes of a wheel, with the fire representing 

 the axle, it is advisable, no doubt, to lie with your 

 head outwards, for it is better to toast your heels 

 than to roast your head ; but if there is room to 

 lie lengthways, always do so, and keep your back 

 to the fire. Of course we talked about the moose 

 we had so nearly killed. " My soul and body, 

 sir," says John, " never see such luck in all my 

 life ; most as bad as we had two years ago when 

 we was camped away down east by the head of 

 Martin's River. You remember, sir, the night we 

 saw the little fire in the woods close by, when 

 there was no one there to make it. Very curious 

 that was ; can't make that out at all. What was 

 it, do you think ? " 



" Well, John," I said, " I suppose it must have 

 been a piece of dead wood shining." 



" Yes, sir ; but it did not look like that ; most 

 too red and flickering for dead wood." 



" Perhaps ghosts making a fire, John," said I. 



" Yes, sir, mebbe ; some of our people believes 

 in ghosts, sir ; very foolish people, some Indians." 



" Don't you, John ? " 



" Oh no, sir ; I never seed no ghosts. I have 



