faces, so
as to frighten their foes. Then they took up their bows and hatchets,
and, following their leader, strode silently away.

8. The Red men did not care to fight in the open. They always tried to
catch their foes asleep or to take them by surprise.

9. In those days the land was full of deer and other wild animals. On
the great plains where the wheat now grows huge herds of bison used to
feed.

10. The Red men hunted the bison on their swift little ponies. When they
were close to the animals they shot at them with arrows. If the arrows
missed their mark, the Red men killed the bison with their knives.

[Illustration: {Red men on horseback hunting bison}]

11. When the white men came they hunted the bison with guns, and soon
killed them off. Only a few bisons remain, and these are now kept in
parks.

12. There are not many Red men left in North America. Most of them have
died off. Many of those who now remain have given up their old way of
living.

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27. THE ESKIMOS.

1. Here is another picture for you. Look at it carefully. It shows you
the people who live in the far north of Canada. They are called Eskimos.

[Illustration: Amongst the Eskimos.]

2. In the upper part of the picture you see a man on a sledge. He is
dressed in furs, and has fur gloves on his hands. His head and ears are
covered with a hood. In the far north of Canada the cold is so bitter in
winter that men's hands and ears would be frost-bitten if they were not
kept warm in this way.

3. In winter the sea and the land are thickly frozen over. The whole
country is covered with ice and snow. The Eskimo has to travel over the
ice to get from place to place. He uses a sledge drawn by dogs. There is
a team of dogs in the upper part of the picture.

4. Sometimes the sledge is overturned, and the men and dogs are thrown
into deep, wide cracks in the ice. Sometimes fierce storms arise, and
men and dogs perish together. Sometimes food runs short, and they die of
hunger.

5. In the middle part of the picture you see a tent. The Eskimos can
only live in tents during the short summers; during the long dark
winters they live in huts. The walls are made of stones and sods. The
roof is of wood which has drifted to their shores. You must remember
that no trees will grow in these very cold lands.

6. Some Eskimos make their winter houses of blocks of snow, with sheets
of ice for the windows. Perhaps yo