. Canadian Catholic Readers. Third Reader. ook their wives andchildren with them. The families remained at homein the camps or villages, the squaws with the littlebabies, and the 3oung boys and girls, all living togethervery happily, while their husbands, fathers or brotherswere absent on their terri))le raids. No doubt the young boys of the camp looked withlonging eyes after the warriors in war-paint and feathers,wishing tliat they, too, might go along. Yet the life ofan Indian boy or girl of long ago was a very happy to us it seems to liave been nothing but a bigpicnic, lasting a
. Canadian Catholic Readers. Third Reader. ook their wives andchildren with them. The families remained at homein the camps or villages, the squaws with the littlebabies, and the 3oung boys and girls, all living togethervery happily, while their husbands, fathers or brotherswere absent on their terri))le raids. No doubt the young boys of the camp looked withlonging eyes after the warriors in war-paint and feathers,wishing tliat they, too, might go along. Yet the life ofan Indian boy or girl of long ago was a very happy to us it seems to liave been nothing but a bigpicnic, lasting all the year round. There, in the largeclearing bordered with a thick, dark forest of trees, was 88 Third Header. the group of bark wigwams which formed their camp orvillage. Near by might be seen the gleam of the watersof a lake, a river, or a stream. In front of the wigwamssat the squaws, busily engaged in making clothes ofskins, shaping moccasins, weaving fish-nets, makingwillow wands into baskets, or moulding clay into potsand All around them were the boys and girls merrilyplaying, laughing, brown-skinned, happy savages, with-out a care in the world. They did not need to worryabout school or about lessons, for their only school-roomwas the great world; and the only lessons they learnedwere those taught them by the flowers, the birds, thetrees, and the animals. But how free they were, girls The Indians at Home. 89 as well as boys. The girls were allowed perfect libertytill they were old enough to help with the work of thecamp (for the women do all the work in an Indiancamp), or to marry some j^oung brave. So they playedball together, they fished in the streams, they climbedthe trees, they hunted tlie animals in the woods withtheir bows and arrows, they dived like fishes in the coolwaters, they ran long races with one another. But the Indian boys great ambition was to be a greatwarrior like his father. From tlie time \vhen as a littlepapoose he was strapped into his
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