blue for weeks after. Happily no bones were broken,
so the incident only confined him a day to his encampment.
Soon after this the snow fell thicker than ever, and
it became evident that an unusually early winter was
about to set in among the mountains. This was a
terrible calamity, for if the regular snow of winter set
in, it would be impossible for him either to advance or
retreat.
While he was sitting on his bearskin by the camp-fire
one day, thinking anxiously what he should do, and