smiling serenely upon them. The mock suns, or "sun dogs," as they were
commonly called, all disappeared with the storm of which they seemed to
have been the harbinger. Beautiful as had been their appearance, the
boys all agreed that if their coming was to be so speedily followed by
such a storm they would gladly dispense with them in the future; nor did
they see them again until when, in the depth of winter, they showed up
in their weird splendour and heralded forth a blizzard storm which
played its wild pranks upon the boys most thoroughly. But we must not
anticipate.

Mr Ross and the Indians quickly shifted the camp to a pleasant place.
A fire was kindled and a hot meal was cooked and eaten, and then there
was a consultation as to the future. One canoe was destroyed; could the
whole party go in the other two, or had they better return to Sagasta-
weekee? Mr Ross was anxious to hear whether the cyclone had done any
damage at home, although he had not much fear, for it had apparently
come from another direction. However, it was eventually decided that
three of the Indians should return home, and bring along with them
another canoe, as well as news from the home. They were also to call at
the camp to take home the bear's robe and meat, which had been cached in
the ground as we have described. Very soon were they ready to start,
and, to the surprise of Mr Ross, Alec asked to be permitted to go with
them. This request was readily granted, and soon in one canoe, with
their four paddles at work, they were speeding along at a great rate.

They pushed on without stopping, until they began to round the point of
a narrow tongue of land, which would bring them into full view of their
camp, although it was still some hundreds of yards away. The instant
the point was turned and the distant camping place came into view the
Indian in the front of the canoe suddenly ducked down his head and
whispered a sharp, quick "Hist!" and at once arrested the forward
movement of the boat. Noiselessly and quickly was the canoe paddled
back out of sight.

"What is the matter?" said Alec, who was surprised by the suddenness of
this quick retrograde movement and of the quiet, suppressed excitement
of the Indians.

"Wolverine!" was the only word he heard, which was whispered from one
Indian to the other. The utterance of this one word made Alec no wiser
until one of the men, who understood a little English, said, "Wolverine
find the c