We had venison-steak, pork, ham, jerked venison stew, fresh trout, broiled partridge, cold roast duck, a fricassee of wood rabbits, and broiled pigeon upon our table, coming in courses, or piled up helter-skelter on great platters of birch bark, some on tin plates, and now and then a choice bit on a chip!

In a gay helter-skelter all hands turned to.

All four of the field officers of the militiatwo colonels and two majorsjoined helter-skelter in the chase, leaving their troops for half an hour without a leader.

But play is the first great educator,that is as true of animals as of men,and to the cubs their rough helter-skelter after hoppers was as exciting as a stag hunt to the pack, as full of surprises as the wild chase through the soft snow after a litter of lynx kittens.