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His wives were watching him, and when they saw him disappear, they took down the lodge, packed everything on the dog travois, and moved off, going toward the main camp. When they got near it, so that the people could hear them, they began to cry and mourn. "Why is this?" they were asked. "Why are you mourning? Where is your husband?" "He is dead," they replied.
There are dolls of all sizes, and a play travois leans against the white wall of the miniature lodge. Even the pet pup is called in to complete the fanciful home of the little woman. "Now, my daughter," says the mother, "you must keep your lodge in order!" Here the little woman is allowed to invite other little women, her playmates.
Whereupon Crow's Dance, who had 250 warriors, set upon the Salteaux, killing not any of the people, but shooting nineteen valuable sled-dogs, cutting lodges, upsetting travois, knocking down men, and frightening the women and children by firing off guns and giving war-whoops.
"The scratches on the ground of his little travois poles will make a trail easy to be followed. I must take him with me and run back the trail. For you, stay here by the water and no matter what your fears, do not move from here in any case, even if I should not be back by night." "But what if you should not come back!" she said, her terror showing in her eyes. "But I will come back," I replied.
"Some of 'em must come in sight here in a minute, sir," panted the veteran sergeant. "We could see them plainly up there a mule litter and four travois, and there must be a dozen in saddle." A dozen there were, for along the line of crouching men went sudden thrill of excitement.
His wives were watching him, and when they saw him disappear, they took down the lodge, packed everything on the dog travois, and moved off, going toward the main camp. When they got near it, so that the people could hear them, they began to cry and mourn. "Why is this?" they were asked. "Why are you in mourning? Where is your husband?" "He is dead," they replied.
They were eager to gain release from their island prison, and when their meal was eaten Toby hurriedly lashed their few belongings, including the boat sail, which had served so well as a shelter, upon the improvised travois, for Charley to drag behind him. A rope had been attached to the now hard-frozen seal the evening before.
The youthful Gall was in a travois, a basket mounted on trailing poles and harnessed to the sides of the animal. "Hey! hey! they are gaining on him!" a warrior shouted. At this juncture two of the canines had almost nabbed their furry prey by the back. But he was too cunning for them.
They travelled a long way, and at last their horses gave out, and they started back toward their homes. As they were going along they came to the Sand Hills; and while they were passing through them, they saw in the sand a fresh travois trail, where people had been travelling. One of the men said: "Let us follow this trail until we come up with some of our people. Then we will camp with them."
And the old man did as he had been ordered, thinking to himself: "Now, at last, my son-in-law has taken pity on me. He will give me part of this meat." When he returned with the dogs, they skinned the cow, cut up the meat and packed it on the dog travois, and went home. Then the young man had his wives unload it, and told his father-in-law to go home. He did not give him even a piece of liver.
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