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Show THE TUB, BRIOADE. The going nnd mining nf the fur hrl-gale hrl-gale was the out great event of the year to those nomadic people who stood watching tho fast nnlshlng llolllla ,ere they not bidding fmewell to fath-ei fath-ei b, biotheis sons or loveis chosen us the best mon fiont their ,UllaKo of over 400 souli Hud tin v not hid i hind in winning the tiensure that wns lloutlng awny ' If only tho pelts In those lacks could hi ik what talis tiny wruld ttnrold' liming the early pint or the pievlous lutumn Indians with thtlr families dogs and n few In longings Ion. ltd Into canoes had stt nut foi various vari-ous points lu tin surrounding wilderness wilder-ness Then ns the little trouis srnd-tully srnd-tully scparjtid mh family Inlept-ml-enlly set off in different dlnctlons and at Inst, after many days nf piddling polling, Hacking and picking up the wildest rivets nnl with 1 lanket sails skimming over unnamed lakes they i cached their landa' Just as tho spirit of wlntei was swttplng over the grt it nine I'uuiiiiy an I t-tlverirg 1110 Sill nt vvuteia und whlsperlnB forests with her mnntlo of while Ml vvlntir long they ha 1 tolled with sleds and hunted mid trapped un snow shoes. Entji riimlly hnd tripped only on the "Inn Is bound ed by tutiln stnams, the right to which ha I bun handed down fioin past generations Constantly tin y hid moved their bark wljwnins ns thtlr mm ten ro ids ilijedout Pomeilmes there hnd been foastlnL but nfi.mr fnsllng As tin short days nf the long seiKiti slnwly passci the Indians grnd-unllj grnd-unllj ad lei to their i lie of skins At Inst the days h nnhennl the snuw snnk avny the likes opened nnd the rivers once mine run dee hleds ivero cast isl le mines wit pitched up or new ones liuili nn I the long Jouiney to the post begun Hut then It was easier tiBvellng In Hit Bpiing, foi lh, wnicr was high and ihe uirrent right rVrlb. net s Mug izln |