. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. ON THE SAND BAR. Once our boat ran into a sand-bar, and it tookthe men several days to get it off. We childrenwere just as happy in the woods as on theboat. We saw many Indians here, but they werefriendly and did not wish to hurt us. Theywould look at our baby and say, White pap-poose : squaw or warrior ? Mother was afraidthey would steal it, but she need not have did not admire a little, weak, white baby. Grandfathers Story. 105 II. THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW HOME. After six weeks on the river, we landed at alittle town which had a store
. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. ON THE SAND BAR. Once our boat ran into a sand-bar, and it tookthe men several days to get it off. We childrenwere just as happy in the woods as on theboat. We saw many Indians here, but they werefriendly and did not wish to hurt us. Theywould look at our baby and say, White pap-poose : squaw or warrior ? Mother was afraidthey would steal it, but she need not have did not admire a little, weak, white baby. Grandfathers Story. 105 II. THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW HOME. After six weeks on the river, we landed at alittle town which had a store and a blacksmithsshop. Its one street was full of stumps. Father agreed to trade his boat for some landnear the centre of the state. He and another. THE STREET FULL OF STUMPS. man tramped off through the woods to build acabin for us. We lived in the boat while theywere gone. After a while he came back for us and westarted again on our journey — but this time onfoot. We secured an ox-team and cart to takeour goods to the new home. The weather had grown quite cold by this 106 Stories of Pioneer Life. time, so cold that often I had to run to keepwarm. At night we built a great log fire nearour camp. One night it was so cold that mothersat up all night near the fire, holding the babyon her lap to keep it from freezing. Often we had to cut down trees to make away for our wagon through the woods. As wetravelled, we saw and heard many wild animals. All night we could hear the howling of thewolves, but we did not fear them because they wereafraid of the log fire we kept burning near us. In the day we could see plenty of deer, tur-keys, and squirrels. We could have any of thesefor our dinner that we chose. At last we reached our rude log
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