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Title: The true story book
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: History Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green

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ging and kissing me with great earnestness, andfor a long time. I then told her what my aunt had saidto me, both going and returning, and this being told to herhusband when he returned, he not only reproved her for it, butgave her a severe flogging. The bear was sent for, and, as beingthe first I had killed, was cooked all together, and the hunters ofthe whole band invited to feast with us, according to the customof the Indians. The same day one of the Crees killed a bear anda moose, and gave a large share of the meat to my mother. One winter I hunted for a trader called by the Indians Aneeb,which means an elm-tree. As the winter advanced, and the 10 A BOY AMONG THE BED INDIANS weather became more and more cold, I found it difficult to procureas much game as I had been in the habit of supplying, and as waswanted by the trader. Early one morning, about mid-winter, Istarted an elk. I pursued until night, and had almost overtakenhim; but hope and strength failed me at the same time. What
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clothing I had on me, notwithstanding the extreme coldness of theweather, was drenched with sweat. It was not long after I turnedtowards home that I felt it stiffening about me. My leggings wereof cloth, and were torn in pieces in running through the bush. Iwas conscious I was somewhat frozen before I arrived at the placewhere I had left our lodge standing in the morning, and it was now A BOY AMONG THE RED INDIANS 11 midnight. I knew it had been the old womans intention to move,and I knew where she would go; but I had not been informed shewould go on that day. As I followed on their path, I soon ceasedto suffer from cold, and felt that sleepy sensation which I knewpreceded the last stage of weakness in siich as die of cold. I re-doubled my efforts, but with an entire consciousness of the dangerof my situation ; it was with no small difficulty that I could preventmyself from lying down. At length I lost all consciousness forsome time, how long I cannot tell, and, awaking as from a drea

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