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At noon Factor Mackenzie informed me that he had received word that Oo-koo-hoo The Owl was coming to the Fort that afternoon and that, taking everything into consideration, he thought Oo-koo-hoo's hunting party the best for me to join. It consisted, he said, of Oo-koo-hoo and his wife, his daughter, and his son-in-law, Amik The Beaver and Amik's five children.
I have known him even leave a trap in a tree, but in that case it was not done from design, for signs proved that the chain had been caught upon a branch." "How many wolverines," I asked, "do you suppose are causing all the trouble on your and Amik's trapping paths?"
Just as they got ready to go, the younger woman, Amik's wife, remembered that the baby had brought a duck as a present for the Factor's children so they had to give a present in return, worth at least twice as much as the duck. The Factor and his family were by this time sufficiently weary. Right willingly did they go down to the landing to see the Indians off.
Shing-wauk The Little Pine had come that day, and had been invited to sleep in Amik's tepee; yet he spent the greater part of his time sitting with Neykia in her grandmother's lodge. As there are no cozy corners in a tepee, it is the Ojibway custom for a lover to converse with his sweetheart under cover of a blanket which screens the lovers from the gaze of the other occupants of the lodge.
Accordingly, I accepted Amik's invitation to board his craft, and at the first good place we all went ashore to clear the ground for the night's camp.
Then Naudin Amik's wife left the others, and took her way among the trees to an opening in the wood. There stood two little wooden crosses that marked the graves of two of her children one a still-born girl and the other a boy who had died at the age of three. Upon the boy's grave she placed some food and a little bow and some arrows, and bowed low over it and wept aloud.
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