And at the sound of it Kazan rose from out of his silence and his fear, and with his head turned straight up to the sky he howled as the wild dogs of the North howl before the tepees of masters who are newly dead.

Now the weather began to grow very cold again, and Robert saw the number of tepees in the forest increase.

I did not much like to stay alone in our tepee for I feared a tall, broad-shouldered crazy man, some forty years old, who walked loose among the hills.

Still the guardian star in the night sky beamed compassionately down upon the little tepee on the plain.

He had smoked his last pipe with the chief, and now he went from tepee to tepee, in the fashion of the Crees, and drew a single puff from the pipe of each master, until there was but one tepee left, and in that was Oachi.

See that bunch of spruce over there?" The old hunter pointed to a clump fifty yards beyond the tepee toward the little lake.

" She limped to the tepee with John's arm snugly about her slim waist.

Casey's manner therefore was extremely preoccupied when he led a suddenly limping William up the gulch and past a stone hut with a patched tepee alongside it.

The next day Roscoe was able to move about in his tepee without pain.

It came from beyond the tepee, and he rose quickly from where he had thrown himself and ran forward, with the tepee between him and those on the other side.

An Indian fire would be considered a very cheerless affair by the inmates of houses heated by modern appliances; but such as it isa few sticks burning with feeble blaze and scarcely penetrating the dense smoke filling the tepee from the ground to the small opening at the topit consumes fuel, and the demand is always greater than the supply, for the reason that an Indian has no idea of preparation for future necessities.

The coffee habit was one of the signs of her progress in the white man's civilization, also had she emerged from the tepee into a log hut, another achievement.