Show a L if UAL I 1 H BB I 1 EJ THE 1 DOG 4 eg 0 B by ag yg GEORGE E 1 MARSH Q ra A by artt the etna comphor service SYNOPSIS up the wild waters of the unknown yellow leg Lr on a hunt lourcey journey brock mccain and gaspard hla his french cree comrade with flash brocks puppy appy and their dog doe team brocks brockb yai father t her had bad warned ill him n of the danger of hla his trip atter after several battles with the tha stormy waters water they arrive at a fork in the tel low leg Leff brock la Is severely eve rely in aured red in making a portage poriae por tae a and n d mob flash leads gaspard to the tb u unconscious n cona clout youth CHAPTER ill continued 4 after long days ays of 0 slavery with pole paddle end and line they had bad reached their goal brocks freckled face ace beamed with a smile of faction at tile the thought that never before so far as aa anyone knew had a white man dipped a paddle in these waters to what risks what perlis perils lay before them when the freezing moon of tile hie crees swung above the ridges radies and the from the bay drove south locking lakes lafis and streams with wild tee ice and the long shows blanketed forest and muskeg ho he gave no thought they were well provisioned but of course would need much fish an an game to carry the dogs and themselves through t to the be breakup break up of the river ice in may hut but caribou surety surely roamed the muskets muskegs of the ibe back coun try and sch a lake laka contained fish they would make inake out all right and then with what a fur pack this trapped an country should send hem beia home to hungry house elouse and the envy of the crees at the tradel trade 1 and the things they the would trade it aorl dogs do 93 tor for gaspard a peterboro Peter boro canoe ot of his own tor for brock new rifles rides and outfit forthe for the next winters hunt from daylight to dusk of the days following the trappers raced against the winter which one day without warning would close in on oil the valley of the yellow rellow leg sheathing the coves of the lakes and the dead waters of the rivers with a film of ice smothering the sun while powdery snow isnow whitened ridges and barrens in the wind break of a heavy stand of spruce con to the river they pitched their tent this bauks banked high with sno snow w and heated by the folding tent stove of shed lion iron which brocks father had given them would be snug engg in the bitterest weather near by they trimmed and peeled standing spruce saplings and built a plat platform forin cache as a storehouse for food high above the reach of the flogs dogs and stray animals which might find it to in their absence and to check prowling erines from climbing the slippery uprights they circled each spruce with a necklace of inverted fishhooks then setting the net which was visit ed each morning the boys began to store etore lake trout and whitefish along the water courses tn in the swamps and on the ridges east south and west they searched nr fur game signs blazing train trails on which they would run tap unes unea aheu the snow enow eftimes aroe swiftly the mellow days of the northern indian summer passed then one day when they had cut firewood on the ridge behind the camp until their backs we were re s stiff dif brock suggested 0 weve just got time enough to look at that little river across the lake before it gets dork dark it ought to be good mink and otter country und and im sick of this ox ax so they paddled across the two miles of restless take lake gray under the lead colored sky at the tie mouth of the stream which was on the north shored shore a mud beach offered a good landing for g a canoe drawing up the boat gaspard started up the shore abend of brock when suddenly be quickened his pace up demanded the other searching the lake lahe shore ahead for the cause of his friends action gaspard stopped pointing to the mud at his feet by the great horned owl a canoe ill 1 cried the excited brock weve never landed herel no derf den ees no DO keel beet ees a birch bark the frowning eyes of the speaker traversed the beach near them then with a A ah h hohl hahl gaspard walked a few ste steps Is and pointed to something at his feet moccasin track leaving brock he walked a few yards his eyes searching the beach then suddenly stopped and bent over busy with the problem before he fore him shortly alti a nod fiod of inn illy be turned to brock white man herel here I 1 he suld soberly injun track turn tn in white man walk ctr alghi TM ten I 1 see it ow now admitted brock but what could bring a white mim muni where would he comp from then them across drain brain lits hec the memory of the strange toner sit the mouth of the yellow leg eg ills law dropped as his eye cipf tied with HIP surmise rant gehn iberl he gasped free aradi traders ral i rn we inny time to shore sharp ehli country offer after all I 1 thought we vre were V t f P first to in see IV it ti t odd mid pit cd ruefully ellb pe de will nut not like tu to find us here Velin vt tiivi vc yet at the wortis wt di of hist his friend the tight fight ing of ul ill 9 heated IP fin brocks veins try t drive ns ca out et el 7 he h ill dl blue ebba amk here you yon aiudi and I 1 enn shoot all 1 ery around ind most indiana indian cant we wet we know that are we goina to 49 run out of this country where weve got as much right as they havo gaspard thrust out a sinewy hand which wit hla friend impulsively gripped grippe 6 we etayl said the naif breed quietly his swart fco set like stane that night as brock lashed with rawhide to cross pieces two long six all inch strips of birch planed to a quarter inch in thickness and curled at a one end by steaming from time 0 time lie he glanced curiously at hla his companion busted with the loot foot lashings of a pair of snow snowshoe on your mind gaspard Ous pard he said bald at length youve been tull i ull ing over something for the lad hour gaspard lifted a face so bitter that brock abruptly stopped work on hla his trapping sled out with it my lad ind no secrets between part partners I 1 tint face of the halfbreed half breed softened as he met his friends rl ends curious eyes but ho he did not anover an siver you yon dont suppose they were here last year crock brock burst out in excitement as the thought of the elder le croli flashed across his mind the dark face of was ted with pain as he turned to ills his mend friend the glitter ot of hate bate so inn ima so ruth leai in the small eyes 0 lecroix failed 11 led tho the one who watched with awe never before hod had brock seen that look in the eyes of his hi friend 1 I vink tank dese men know wat be corne come of my fader replied gaspard deliberately hta his brooding eyes again seeking the tire ile de was ver ter good man een do bush he nevalee starve out and hla his dogs some would come back it if the wolves got get them ah huh hah dey would come bome well owell said brock afeei after an Inter interval viii of hard thinking if they did awa agui with your father for coming into athla fill country try to do the same with as shoot us trout from ambush or steal our grub and burn bura the tent when were away on the lines gaspard nodded in agreement well havi to move out camp at once on de first snow I 1 go back into dai dal ca countree entree nord of de lac an look lot 01 dose in the silence allence from a distant ridge drifted j faint call de wolf he hunt bunt tonight still gaspard a the roused aroused a huskies point ing noses st at the frosted stars howled back theIr challenge to tile the unbent eai emy across the soundless forest like an omen of evil the wull ft 9 the wolf wol struck upon tile the ears 0 urk broch mccain into these bleak hills pierr lecroix and his doat had jone nef to return when the spring came to hungry house auld they anil its li vain for the comina of the canoe whak bhuli to had left in fur the of the yellow leg who knew CHAPTER IV the battle in the muskeg then one day a stinging north wester drove down across ojibwa for the birthplace of the north wind bringing the snow enow to whiten hills barrens and forest floor and betray the of their restless hoofed and furred nomads with the coming of the snow enow the boys began hauling their frozen fish and goose and their outfit into the back country to a new camp they bad to lo bated in the valley of another stream tributary to the oe take lake where the t ck spruce timber limbo provided both in a wind break and concealment and with the coming ol of the snow started the education of the hulking flash who the grevl previous ous winter had bad been too young to break to harness borness gradually under the patient tutorship of brock the pup learned the n mean ienn ing of geel and soon at the command bl marchel archel the twelve months old husky would leap into his collar cellar and take his master scurrying ove the young youna snow TO BE CONTINUED |