One of these, the eldest, was a boy, and in honor of the old chief he was named Wabigoon, and called Wabi for short.

A heavy crashing in the underbrush not a dozen rods away sent Wabi in a hurried scramble for his perch.

replied Wabi with emphasis.

In fact, Rod possessed a secret hope that he might induce the princess mother to allow her daughter to accompany himself and Wabi to Detroit, where he knew that his own mother would immediately fall in love with the beautiful little maiden from the North.

The quick-witted Wabi at once realized their situation.

A short distance away the hunters separated, Rod striking to the eastward and Wabi into the south.

It was Mukoki who had first carried the baby Wabi about the woods upon his shoulders; it was he who had played with him, cared for him, and taught him in the ways of the wild in early childhood, and it was he who had missed him most, with little Minnetaki, when he went away to school.

If that was Wabi down thereif Wabi had been killedwhat would Mukoki's vengeance be!