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Show Aihal as Indian fan .Stuud. To sliow what au lmlian ti siand when he has to I may tell of an Incident whkh hi-ipc-iied during Uie winter I was with them. Toward To-ward winter on a very cold day, when it xvas snowing just a little nut! drifting a good ileal, au Indian camel., the log house with a jug half full of whiAy and with his nlle. I imagine that the jug hail been entirely full when he-started, he-started, ami by the time he got to the house he was iu rather a Jolh condition. The Jug and the rille were taken awa from Iilm.sndhe was ordered to get lo his w igwani as oou as he couM liefure darkness came on lit k-ft. and was supposed to have gone U the canii, 1-ut early next inornrnghls squaw apj-tartdit lhe lieusc and sak lie hail not come hftiue tliat nigiit, and as the night wa very cold, she had been amicus about luni. Tlien tlie searcli U-gan. U-gan. He was found In one of the fJieds near the bam under a htap of drift esl snow, and the chances are that tbesnnw thaCwas above him had helped to s ve his life. The searchers search-ers for the Indian hid rmw in different directions, and it was his own squaw who. with true Indian instiu. t. had trai ked him out, and she was alone when she found him. Apparently tlie I mi Ian was a frozen cori.-e. She tumbled him out of his snowbank and iiulled oil his blan'els and dragged hlra down to the treek, where a deep hule was cut in the k-e for ILe purpose of watering water-ing the cattle, laying the Indian outou tlie snow, she touk a l-an that was beside the Ice-hole, and, filling it, rep-atedly daslieel lallful after pailful oflce water overthe body of the Indian By the time theother iinsticci'u! searchers had returned she had her old man thawed out and sealed by the fire w rapped In bbuikets. There is no question tliat If h Imd been found by tho others and taken iuto tiie house frc en as he was, he would have died. |