Down North and Up Along 
Besides a number of Indian children, there 
were little dogs about the camp, as miserable- 
looking as starved little dogs could be, and 
there was a kitten with a woolly coat like a 
sheep. It was a desperate-looking kitten, and 
who can tell whether its woolly coat was due 
to the vermin that certainly infested it, or to 
some un-catlike, and ghouHsh foreknowledge 
such as is said to be possessed by potato-skins, 
corn-husks, and gophers, of a hard winter which 
must be prepared for. 
As we receded from the camp, the pointed 
wigwams shining white and tawny with their 
covering of birch-bark, the blue lines of smoke 
wavering up to the sky, the moving forms 
of children, made a picture pleasant to look 
upon. 
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