Q direct way of looking at things, almost as 

 simple as the birds'? Or was the idea 

 ^^loaseekho whispered to some Indian hunter, long 

 ago, as he watched Kwaseekho teach her 

 young to dive? 



Of all the broods I have met in the wilder- 

 ness, only one, I think, ever grew to recog- 

 nize me and my canoe a bit, so as to fear me 

 less than another. It was on a little lake in 

 the heart of the woods, where we lingered 

 long on our journey, influenced partly by the 

 beauty of the place, and partly by the fact 

 that two or three bears roamed about there, 

 which I sometimes met at twilight on the 

 lake shore. The brood were as wild as other 

 broods ; but I met them often, and they 

 sometimes found the canoe lying motionless 

 and harmless near them, without quite know- 

 ing how it came there. So after a few days 

 they looked at me with curiosity and uneasi- 

 ness only, unless I came too near. 



There were six in the brood. Five were 

 hardy little fellows that made the water boil 

 behind them as they scurried across the lake. 



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