t -r ON >NO\Y->HOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS 



T^~:hs .^o 1 choked an Indian until he gave up a 

 ; r.v-sk-ox intestine he had stolen from me. One 



r-_< >:-i"> r " know wnat one wil1 eat * 



-e> ; prosperity these Indian tepees are by no 

 .-- Thev are of caribou -skin stretched 



o within about three feet of the top of poles, 

 r r*T according to the size of the lodge. The sides 

 L- .-.re banked up with snow and pine brush, and, 

 ;- c -^ ?m alle5t brush makes a clean-looking and pleas- 



floor. The open fire occupies the centre; 

 .tched from side to side of the lodge, are 

 .hich the meat is placed to thaw, and from 

 ; : mles are suspended. 



A: this fire the men and women sit, cross-legged, 



: :.y. jabbering incessantly in their guttural speech that 

 is impo t describe in writing, and at night they roll 

 up in their blankets and stretch out with their feet at the 

 I used to wonder what on earth they 

 1 to talk about, for the clatter never came to a full 

 stop, and when I lay down at times, trying in slumber to 

 escape the din. it seemed as though it must all be a hide- 

 ous dream. But any such illusion was speedily dispelled 

 by the yelping of a dog that had worked its way into the 

 lodge, and was being clubbed until it worked its way out 

 again. 



Domestic economics are a dead letter in the Indian 

 household. There is no place for any particular thing, 

 and nothing is ever in any particular place. The back 

 part of the lodge, where it is too cold to sit even when 

 the fire blazes highest, appears to be the general store- 

 room. Everything not in immediate use is thrown there 

 in indiscriminate confusion. If the squaw has finished 

 stripping a caribou leg of its meat, she tosses the bone 

 over her shoulder into the unknown behind her; if she 



