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is frost scraped, the skin lastly washed on the 

 case and then the pelt dried by the action of 

 frost alone, it can be readily understood with 

 such care as I have tried to explain, that we get 

 the very finest and most pleasing skins that go 

 out of the country. The Indian's business is to 

 hunt and bring the fruits of the chase or traps 

 to his wigwam; it is his wife and daughters' 

 duty to skin and cure the pelts. The Indians 

 have the pride and ambition to vie with their 

 sister matrons of the forest as to who will get 

 up the cleanest, best and "well prepared skins." 



