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