felt

.

"Hallo, boy, ye've bin i' the wars!" exclaimed Joe,

raising himself from his task as Dick and Crusoe returned.

"You look more like it than I do," retorted Dick,

laughing.

This was true, for cutting up a buffalo carcass with

no other instrument than a large knife is no easy

matter. Yet western hunters and Indians can do it

without cleaver or saw, in a way that would surprise