p to the top of a hill. He seats himself on it
and pushes off. Away he goes over the frozen snow like an arrow from a
bow. It is splendid fun.

14. Those boys and girls whose homes are in towns live very much as you
do. They go to school, and they play in the streets and parks. When
summer comes many of them go to the seaside or to the lakeside for a
holiday.

15. Sometimes a whole family goes camping in the woods. They then live
in tents or in little huts by the side of a river or a lake. What happy
times the children have! They go fishing, they bathe, and they dart to
and fro in canoes.

16. Most of the young folks of Canada are strong and healthy. They are
happy and bright, and they are not afraid of work. No children are more
useful to their parents than the boys and girls of Canada.

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26. THE RED MEN.

1. Tom will not forgive me unless I tell you something about the Red men
of America. He has often asked me about the picture of Red men which is
in my room at home.[1]

[1] See page 102. {Page 102 contains the illustration below}

[Illustration: Red Men and White Men.

(From the picture by Cyrus Cuneo, R.I. By kind permission of the
C.P.R. Co.)]

2. In the old days, before white men settled in America, the Red men
were masters of the land. They were tall and strong, and their skin was
of a dark copper colour. Their eyes were jet black, and their hair was
long and straight.

[Illustration: {Red men in wigwams}]

3. They wore very little clothing, even though the winters in North
America are very cold. From the time when they were babies they were
trained to bear heat and cold, hunger, thirst, and pain without
grumbling.

4. When the white men landed in America, the villages of the Red men
were to be found all over the country. Each of these villages was the
home of a tribe. The houses were tents made of skin or huts made of
wood.

5. The women or squaws did all the hard work. They planted and tilled
the fields, cooked the food, and made the clothes. The babies were put
into little bark cradles, which were sometimes hung from the branches of
trees, and were rocked to and fro by the wind.

6. The Red men were nearly always at war, either amongst themselves or
against the white men. In battle they were very crafty and skilful.
Those who fell into their hands were sometimes treated very cruelly.

7. Before the Red men went on the "warpath" they painted their