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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