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.

Voices came from outside, and the two men reëntered the tepee.

Frequently she asked, "What were they doing when you entered their tepee?"

After that he found enough dry poles with which to set up the tepee, and about this he scattered the saddles and panniers, as MacDonald had suggested.

In the shadow of the evergreens, upon a point extending far into the water, stood the tepees of a group of Indians, hardy hunters and dependents in a vague sort of way of the great fur company which took its name from Hudson's Bay.

They'll build fires and throw up a few tepees, maybe for the French.