Injun and Whitey to the Rescue

the mountains. Sitting Bull did not seem to justify Whitey's first idea of him; that he was a magnet for excitement. Apparently B

ut he's got a lot o' false idees 'bout himself. He ain't built for huntin' no more

he was mad with delight. But all he did was to rush excitedly about and frighten the game, except once, when Whitey had

hout convincing Bull that he was no hunter, for the nex

ut he isn't," Whitey said reproachfully to Bill

achally too clever t' give up. He'd keep o

Whitey got out of Bill's argumen

ad thought the Montana winter too severe for his miseries, and had gone South for good, and as Wong was a much better cook, no one felt sorry. Won

be done at the ranch house, for which he was paid extra. And here was the boys' chance. Injun was like most other boys when i

le stone about eight inches below your fish-hook. Select a dark night and the window of the person whose nerves you wish to disturb. Then sneak up, and fasten the fish-hook

ack, he probably had played other, Chinese boy games that Injun and Whitey would have been glad to know about, and Wong Lee was of

he tick-tack, with his pigtail standing straight out in the wind, and pursue the boys from cover to cover. But he was

chance to turn to tender green. And the swollen river was dotted with cakes of ice, among which the wild ducks dropped on their way South wher

ll a bear, he has to go on an errand for his mother-or something like that. Well, here was Whitey, with this spring feeling inciting him to great deeds, instead of making him lazy, as it does some people, and he w

a bit at a time. "John Big Moose's goin' t

!" Whit

that you're goin' t' lose your dea

going away, but just think, there'll

and he looked at the boy

to notice the look. "What's

Bill continued, "an' John has some money, your father don't think it's fair t' keep him here teachin' a couple o' kids, when there's a big openin' for John right th

mething of the big Indian's ambitions, having heard him discuss them with Mr. Sherwood. "Father p

t, not wishing to display his ignorance furt

going?" dem

drive him t' th'

r a hunting trip. I hear Moose Lake is just loaded wit

e. But first I must tell you how s'prised an' pained y

rted Whitey. "Did you lik

y I didn't, now. You ain't got no idea what a handi

pretty good idea of the handicap, but he was wise enough t

er hand. There's one thing books never rightly teached no boy, an' that's lookin' ahead. I've often wondered why they didn't pay more 'tention t' th

one of his favorite topics, and wouldn't stop an

n a while that way o' figurin' has saved his life. They's a highbrow word for that stuff, an' it's 'observati

cleverness was due to the lore inherited from his Indian ancestors, with their knowledge of the wild and of the habits of its beasts and birds. But Bi

y cried, "you got

. "Last time I wa

hat th' Eastern Express le

N

n' Buck's got th' team all hitched, an' John Big Moose's just

snakes!" cried

observation thing is great stuff

t' argue with kids," said B

"What was that other news

ig Moose is goin', you an' Injun'll have t' go t' school at th'

of adventure, of wild geese and bears just wakening from thei

anything?" Whitey m

y sympathetic, looked up at hi