Winter Adventures of Three Boys
  • Chapter One. Sagasta-weekee — A Happy Home in the Great Lone Land — Three Boys There Welcomed — The Sudden Coming of Winter — Various Sports Discussed — Hurrah for the Dogs — Useful Animals — Dog-whips — Kinesasis, the Dog-keeper.
  • Chapter Two. Bringing Home the Dogs — The Thin Ice — Method of Crossing Dangerous Places — The Dogs' Summer Home — The Return Trip — The Unexpected Goose Hunt — The Saucy Fox — Kinesasis's Question, “Why Do the Geese Go to the South Land?”
  • Chapter Three. Selecting their Dogs — Various Methods of breaking them in — Frank's Success by Kindness with Monarch — Sam's Troubles with Spitfire — Conquered at Last — Training and capturing Dogs with Dogs — Alec's Train of part Staghounds.
  • Chapter Four. Numerous Dogs — Useful Animals — Food Supply — Frozen Fish — Bringing them Home — Vigorous Work for Boys and Dogs — Frank's Tumble — Sam's Ducking — Skating Parties — Alec's Thrilling Adventure — The Race for Life — Northern Grey Wolves — Their Cunning — Their various Stratagems — Mr Ross's Fears — The Search Party — Alec Rescued — The Wolves shot.
  • Chapter Five. The Invitation to the Indian School Examination and Sports — Trapping Experiences — The Cunning Cross-fox — Frank seeking Aid from Memotas — Method of Successful Trap-setting — Joyous Trip to the Mission — An Abiding Christian Civilisation for the Indians — Sam's and a Young Indian's Novel Hunting Methods — Wild Cats captured — The Queer Battle between a Fox and a Wild Cat.
  • Chapter Six. The Winter Birds of the Great Lone Land — The Whisky Jack — The Ptarmigan — Their Beds in the Snow — Mission Visits — Cupid's Darts — The Wood Supply — Primitive Way of Capturing Partridges — Great Snowy Owls — Methods of Capture — Sam's Experience — The Fearful Grip of the Owl's Claw.
  • Chapter Seven. Wounds from Claws versus Teeth discussed — Mr Ross's Story of the Battle with the Eagles — Their Mountain Aerie — Their Hunting Skill — Their Voracity — The Eaglets — The Conflict — The Result — The Painful Wounds.
  • Chapter Eight. Sundays in the Great Lone Land — Services at the Mission — By Skiff or Canoe in Summer — By Dog-train in Winter — Napoleon, the Tame Bear, and his Load — Services at Sagasta-weekee — Missionary Journeys — Native Ministers — The Queer Sermon — Happy Christmas Times — New Year's, the Great Day — Oo-che-me-ke-se-gou — The Kissing Day — Varied Experiences — The Great Feast — Happy Indians — Thanksgiving.
  • Chapter Nine. The Indian School Examinations — The Prizes — Noble Indian Boys — The Skates to Kepastick — The Various Sports — Foot Races — The Skating Race — Tricky Clerk outwitted — Frank and Kepastick tie as Winners — Football — Hockey.
  • Chapter Ten. The Great Race with the Dog-trains — Careful Preparations by Alec — The Different Breathing Places — The Treacherous Half-breeds — Their Signal Failure — Alec's Triumph.
  • Chapter Eleven. Pasche disappears — The Search — Big Tom and Mustagan — The Whisky Jacks — Pasche found in a Hollow Tree — Chased by an Angry Moose Bull — Pasche rescued — His Quaint Account of his Adventures.
  • Chapter Twelve. Kinesasis's Wonderful Story — How he wooed Shakoona — Their Youthful Days — Miskoodell rescued from the Bear — Oosahmekoo with his Gold — Kinesasis's Successful Hunt — His Furs Stolen — Marries Shakoona — Conflict with the Old Warrior.
  • Chapter Thirteen. Comments on Kinesasis's Wonderful Story — The Pack of Furs Recovered — Honesty of Indians — Their Different Hunting Grounds — The Golden Rule — The Dishonest Foreign Indian — His Sudden Death.
  • Chapter Fourteen. Home Amusements and Studies — Happy Days at Sagasta-weekee — Stories of the Early Hunters — Methods of Hunting before the Introduction of Firearms — Wolves more Dreaded then — Story of two of Kinesasis's Children — Killed by Wolves — Shakoona's Sorrow — Saved by the Caresses of Little Children.
  • Chapter Fifteen. The Beavers, and something about them — Two Hunters at Sagasta-weekee — A General Invitation to a Beaver Hunt accepted — The Preparations — The Trip — Dog-travelling in the Woods — Saucy Wild Animals — The Wolf's Cove — The Boys' Plunge in the Snowdrift — The Rescue.
  • Chapter Sixteen. Still on the Way to the Beaver House — The Winter Camp in the Woods — Work for all — Feeding the Dogs — Our Boys guarding their own Trains — The Evening Meal — Bitter Cold — Milk in Lumps of Ice — Evening Prayers — The Wintry Camp Bed — Tucked in — Mysterious Sounds in the Forest — Smothering Sensations — Sam's Nightmare — Breakfast — Tricky Dogs — Methods of Capture — Carioles and Sleds Reloaded — Trains Harnessed — Journey Resumed.
  • Chapter Seventeen. Still on the Way to the Beavers — The Blizzard in the Camp — Sleeping and Eating under Difficulties — Vicious Little Beaver Dogs — The Beaver House — Preparations for their Capture — The Beavers' Kitchens — Discovered by the Little Dogs — How Destroyed — The Method of Capture — Man's Experience versus Animal Instinct — The Rich Harvest of Beavers.
  • Chapter Eighteen. Wise Economy of Indian Hunters — Game never all Killed — Beavers' Tails — The Boys interested in them — Preparations for the Return Trip — Loads Packed — Wolverines — Their Cunning Theft of five Beavers — Dogs and Men on their Trail — Surviving Beavers already at Work — The Return of the Hunters — Captured Wolverines — Journey Resumed — The Camp — The Cry of “Wolves!”
  • Chapter Nineteen. The Coming Battle with the Wolves — Thorough Preparations — The Cry of the Wolves for Reinforcements — The First Attack and Repulse — Wounded Wolves devoured — Memotas's Comments — The Second Attack — The Powder Explosions — Final Victory — Dogs Reluctant to attack Wolves — Explanations — Mr Ross's Story of the Bears stealing his Pigs — Dogs more Confident in attacking Bears.
  • Chapter Twenty. A Bear Hunt in Winter — Mustagan a Famous Indian Guide — Bears' Den — How discovered — Boys' Perplexity — The Journey to the Den — A Cold Morning — The Telltale Column of Steam — The Attempt to dig down to the Bears — Total Failure — Successful Tunnelling Operations — Exciting Fight in the Icy Cavern — The Battles between the Men and Dogs and the Escaping Bears.
  • Chapter Twenty One. The First Signs of Spring — The Eagle Moon — Expressive Indian Names for some of the Months — Chats among the Boys about the Phenomena of the North Land — Power of the Frost — Cunning of Animals — Cleverness of the Guides — Invitation to a Muskrat Hunt gladly accepted — Habits of these Little Animals — Methods of Capture — Their many Foes — The Queer Battle between Wild Cats and Wolverines.
  • Chapter Twenty Two. Niskepesim, the Goose Moon — Excitement Among the Indians — The First Goose — Their Northern Migrations — Feeding Grounds — Methods of Hunting them — Nests — Decoys — Our Boys off with the Indians — The Shooting Grounds — Their Camp — Great Success — Frank's Queer Accident — Hit by a Dead Goose — Sam's Comments — Laden with Spoils.
  • Chapter Twenty Three. Sudden Transition from Winter to Spring — Interesting Phenomena — Sam's Last Great Run with his Dogs — His Unique Adventure — The Open Water — His Novel Raft — Successful Crossing — Frank and Alec's Duck-shooting Trip — The Mighty Nelson — A Hunter's Paradise — Returning under Difficulties — One more Shot at the Wild Geese — Frank and Rumours — The Fair Visitants at Sagasta-weekee.
  • Chapter Twenty Four. The Arrival of the Spring Packet — Welcome Letters — Arrangements for the Home-flitting — Sam's Raillery — Rachel and Winnie at Sagasta-weekee — Happy Hours — Canoeing Excursions — The Cyclone — Young Excursionists Exposed to its Awful Power — The Narrow Escape — The Refuge of the Rock — Napoleon, the Tame Bear, in Possession — Gun Signals — The Happy Rescue.
  • Chapter Twenty Five. Homeward Bound — Farewell to Sagasta-weekee — Old Norway House — Sam's Clever Surmisings — A Glad Surprise for Frank and Alec — Sam's Well-deserved Ducking — A Glorious Evening — The Early Call — Just one more Sweet “Good-bye” — “All Aboard” — On Great Lake Winnipeg — Sam's Successful Shot at a Bear — Red River — First Glimpse of the Prairies — Fort Garry — The Bells of St. Boniface — The Long Trip Across the Plains — The Exciting Buffalo Hunt — Saint Paul's — Still on by Lakes and Rivers — Montreal — On Board Ship — The Ocean Voyage — Liverpool — Home at Last.
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