126 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 
Redskin jumped suddenly out of a canoe in which he had 
been lolling, clapped his ear to the ground, exciting greatly 
my curiosity, and remained in that ludicrous and ungrace- 
ful position for some minutes. On asking him for an ex- 
planation, naught but a grunt could I get for an answer, 
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PASSENGER PIGEONS. 
and a non-describable wave of the hand, as if to invoke si- 
lence. After manceuvring thus, my nearly exhausted pa- 
tience received the explanation that one of the hounds was 
running a deer, and that they were coming this way. Im- 
mediately afterward I was bundled into a canoe, and al- 
though I had never previously handled a paddle, was forced 
