124 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING. 
to get away with the horses, as the savages would con- 
sider no punishment too severe for us. As he knew the 
Indians very well he was asked to explain the matter 
about the graveyard to them, but he said it would be a 
useless waste of words, as no one could make any ex- 
planation that would satisfy them in such a case. He 
also intimated that we would do well to keep away from 
the vicinity of the tribe for some time. Not caring to 
have any trouble with the savages, we started homeward 
after breakfast and reached there in due time, and so 
ended one trip after the Franklin variety of the Canada 
grouse. I learned afterwards that the Indians were so. 
angry at what we had done that they would have caused 
us no little trouble had they caught us, but as they had 
not, they reported us to the Superintendent of Indian 
Affairs, and there the matter stopped, so far as we 
were concerned. 
I have wandered for hours through the forest in search 
of this grouse, and was often fortunate enough to secure 
several brace, besides other game, but I never saw the 
bird display any other traits except those I have men- 
tioned. I have known the birds to be so numerous 
around the camp when parties which I accompanied 
were out deer or bear hunting in the woods, that I think 
it would be safe to say that a man could kill a hundred 
in a day, provided he shot them as he found them, that 
is, on the ground or on trees. I know we found them 
so plentiful at certain seasons that we did not condescend 
to kill them except as we wanted them for immediate use. 
