. Colonial children . ngin the distance. They immediately set out in pursuit,but it was a long time before they neared him. Whenthe bears approached, the hunter took his second ar-row, and shooting it into the air before him, said to it, When you come down there shall be about you a No. 44] Mi a?ic lg B> ears 127 copse as wide as the range of an arrow. There Ishall hide myself. When the arrow descended and entered the earththere appeared a dense undergrowth which completelyhid the boy, who then went to the hole, crawled intoit, and travelled along in the ground until he hadpassed beyond the
. Colonial children . ngin the distance. They immediately set out in pursuit,but it was a long time before they neared him. Whenthe bears approached, the hunter took his second ar-row, and shooting it into the air before him, said to it, When you come down there shall be about you a No. 44] Mi a?ic lg B> ears 127 copse as wide as the range of an arrow. There Ishall hide myself. When the arrow descended and entered the earththere appeared a dense undergrowth which completelyhid the boy, who then went to the hole, crawled intoit, and travelled along in the ground until he hadpassed beyond the endof the copse, where heemerged and hid by atree which also hadsprung up. As before, the bearswere infuriated at theescape of the boy, andtore up the brush inevery direction intheir search for they discov-ered the arrow hole,which they the foot-steps of the boy theysoon found the placewhere he had takenrefuge, but before theyreached him he foundhimself pursued, and,face, he started away. AN INDIAN PAPOOSE, again diving under the sur-for some distance, when heemerged from beneath the ground and started awayover the prairie as before. A second time were thebears baffled, and by the time they found the foot-prints of the boy he was far off. They at once startedin pursuit, and as the boy began to tire a little thebears gained rapidly on him, until he found that the 128 Indians [No. 44 only way to escape was to use his third arrow. Tak-ing the shaft from his quiver and fitting it to his bow-string, he aimed upward into the air before him andsaid, When you come down there shall be about youa copse as wide as the range of an arrow. There Ishall hide myself. The arrow descended, making a hole in the groundas before, and a copse appeared all around it, hidingit from view. The boy at once went down into thehole and away to the edge of the copse, where he as-cended to the surface and hid near one of the treeswhich had sprung up at his command. The chase was
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