. Wilderness ways; . ildren, young and old, than the blind sentimen-tality aroused by ideal animals with exquisite human pro-pensities. Therefore I wrote the story of Kagax, simplyto show him as he is, and so to make you hate him. In this one chapter, the story of Kagax the Weasel, I havegathered into a single animal the tricks and cruelties of ascore of vicious little brutes that I have caught red-handed attheir work. In the other chapters I have, for the most part,again searched my old notebooks and the records of wilder-ness camps, and put the individual animals down just as I found them. ,
. Wilderness ways; . ildren, young and old, than the blind sentimen-tality aroused by ideal animals with exquisite human pro-pensities. Therefore I wrote the story of Kagax, simplyto show him as he is, and so to make you hate him. In this one chapter, the story of Kagax the Weasel, I havegathered into a single animal the tricks and cruelties of ascore of vicious little brutes that I have caught red-handed attheir work. In the other chapters I have, for the most part,again searched my old notebooks and the records of wilder-ness camps, and put the individual animals down just as I found them. ,TT T T Wm. J. Long. Stamford, September, 1900. CONTENTS. Page I. Megaleep the Wanderer i II. KlLLOOLEET, LITTLE SWEET-VOICE .... 26 III. Kagax the Bloodthirsty ...... 41 IV. KOOKOOSKOOS, WHO CATCHES THE WRONG RAT . 59 V. Chigwooltz the Frog 75 . VI. Cloud Wings the Eagle 88 VII. Upweekis the Shadow ....:. 108 viii. hukweem the nlght voice 133 Glossary of Indian Names „ 155 WILDERNESS WAYS. I. MEGALEEP THE EGALEEP is the big woodlandcaribou of the northern wilder-ness. His Milicete name meansThe Wandering One, but itought to mean the Mysteriousand the Changeful as well. Ifyou hear that he is bold andfearless, that is true ; and if you aretold that he is shy and wary and inap-proachable, that is also true. For he isnever the same two days in once shy and bold, solitary and gre-garious ; restless as a cloud, yet clinging to his feed-ing grounds, spite of wolves and hunters, till he leavesthem of his own free will; wild as Kakagos the raven,but inquisitive as a blue jay,—he is the most fascinat-ing and the least known of all the deer. One thing is quite sure, before you begin yourstudy: he is never where his tracks are, nor any- 2 Wilderness Ways. where near it. And if after a seasons watching andfollowing you catch one good glimpse of him, that isa good beginning. I had always heard and read of Megaleep as an awk-ward, ungainly animal, but almost my fi
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