Plain Tales of the North
BY CAPTAIN THIERRY MALLET
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York & London
The Knickerbocker Press
1926
Copyright, 1925
Revillon Frères
Made in the United States of America
A DEDICATION
To the small group of men
outside the pale of civilization who
... isolated in the Far North ...
Thierry Mallet
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PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH
Tale I: A Grave in Saskatchewan
Tale II: Traveling by Canoe
Tale III: “Spot”
Tale IV: In Civilization
Tale V: A Pilot
Tale VI: Native Mechanics
Tale VII: War News in Husky Land
Tale VIII: A Birch Bark Canoe
Tale IX: A Silver Fox and a Scarf
Tale X: Dead in the Storm
Tale XI: A Strange Team
Tale XII: A Moose Story
Tale XIII: The Little Blue Lake
Tale XIV: Forest Fires
Tale XV: An Indian Wake
Tale XVI: A Walrus Story
Tale XVII: Mohican ... The Wolf
Tale XVIII: Fighting Against Starvation
Tale XIX: Wild Animals in the Water
Tale XX: “Sunday”
Tale XXI: Filming a White Bear on Land
Tale XXII: Vermin and Ants
Tale XXIII: A Greenhorn in a Rapid
Tale XXIV: Large Fish
Tale XXV: A Little Indian Girl
Tale XXVI: Outlawed in the Barren Lands
Tale XXVII: One Thousand Years
Tale XXVIII: A Practical Joke
Tale XXIX: Eskimo Arithmetic
Tale XXX: “Caribou”
Tale XXXI: In Siberia
Tale XXXII: In the Hudson Straits
Tale XXXIII: Whiskey Jack
Tale XXXIV: Makejo
Tale XXXV: Two Little Eskimo Boys
Tale XXXVI: An Indian Warrior
Tale XXXVII: Burro
Tale XXXVIII: Travelling in North Alberta
Tale XXXIX: Mother and Cubs
Tale XL: An old Trader
Tale XLI: Wolverine
Tale XLII: “Spot” ... Again
Tale XLIII: Homesick
Tale XLIV: Gotehe
Tale XLV: Pets in the Wilderness
Tale XLVI: An Eskimo Guide in the Barren Lands
Tale XLVII: Man and Wife
Tale XLVIII: “Forty Years Ago”
Tale XLIX: Fisher and Porcupine
Tale L: The Call of the Wild North of Fifty-three