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He asked the boys if they thought they could get on with a single blanket, and when they agreed to this he took Rob's blanket, folded it, rolled it also in canvas, and tied it all tight with a rope, the ends of his tump-strap sticking out, serving him for his way of packing, which was to put the tump-strap across his head. "It's not a very big bundle," said he.
"It's all plain," said Alex, "for I followed our old trail down the hill, and put a branch across two or three places so that you'll know when you're near the pack." They found no difficulty in obeying his instructions, and so tired were they that it seemed but a short time before presently Alex joined them for a second time, carrying the remainder of the meat on his tump-strap.
Then he turned in the ends of the canvas and folded over the sides, rolling all up into a big bundle of very mixed contents which, none the less, he fastened by means of the strap which now served him as support for it all. "I know how you did that," said Rob "I watched you put the strap down inside of the roll." "Yes," said Moise, smiling, "she'll been what Injun call tump-strap.
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