BEK-WUK, THE ARROW 



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food for the arrows, sometimes stopping to smoke 

 a pipe with Kanida, sometimes leaving quickly. 



" In the lodge were arrow-heads that had seen 

 service and returned to be reshafted, and they 

 told me strange tales of war and 

 hunting. How thev were 

 often rubbed with 

 son from the fangs c 

 Crotalus, the Bad 

 One, if meant for 

 war arrows ; and 

 how they had trav- 

 elled mighty dis- 

 tances in the flesh 

 of some slightly 

 wounded stag to be 

 made prisoners 

 by a strange 

 tribe, and final- 

 ly found their 

 way back to 

 Kanida's lodge 

 by the same chance, for the Red Brothers prized 

 Bek-wuk, the Arrow, above price, and never aban- 

 doned him carelessly. 



"One day a girl came to the lodge a child 

 almost, but tall and slim and very beautiful. She 



