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RECREATION 



ALL SNUG. 



By E. F. Whit more 



his life camping out, would be the first 

 to select favorable camping ground. 

 This, however, is not always the case, 

 for in few instances does the latter dav 

 Indian, or such as are still nomadic, 

 exercise the feeblest judgment in select- 

 ing a location. 



In several instances during recent 

 years, I have seen Indian women, carry- 



ing water into camp which 

 had been pitched out on the 

 open prairie, several hundred 

 yards from water, without ap- 

 parent rhyme or reason. The 

 Indian, however, no longer 

 makes an effort to be pictur- 

 esque and a warm current of 

 air or an unusual fit of lazi- 

 ness, inspires him to spread 

 his teepee where he grows 

 tired. 



To me the Indian teepee 

 means more than any other 

 kind of tent, if so it may be 

 called. As a boy I have lain 

 on the skin-covered floor of 

 one of these smoke-filled cones watch- 

 ing the stars, continually emerging from 

 the eclipse of the smoke spirals floating 

 lazily upward to the opening at the top. 

 Smelly indeed were these habitations, 

 but the wall pockets held interesting 

 treasure trove and the Indian boys of 

 my childhood days were ever ready to 

 exhibit them to me, 



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A FISHING CAMP NEAR THE RIVER. 



By J. H. Uhle. 



