. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. e baby ; but if itwere a boy, he watched eao^erly for the time whenit could use its first tiny bow and arrow. As soonas the Indian boy could toddle about, he wastaught to handle his little bow, and to shoot birdsand squirrels. His first game, however small, wascooked for a dinner, to which were invited all thelittle mans great relatives—even the chiefs. The Indian small boy learned to set traps veryearly, too. Sometimes, of course, they were notvery well set, but the fathers looked kfter them,and often secretly put animals in, to enco
. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. e baby ; but if itwere a boy, he watched eao^erly for the time whenit could use its first tiny bow and arrow. As soonas the Indian boy could toddle about, he wastaught to handle his little bow, and to shoot birdsand squirrels. His first game, however small, wascooked for a dinner, to which were invited all thelittle mans great relatives—even the chiefs. The Indian small boy learned to set traps veryearly, too. Sometimes, of course, they were notvery well set, but the fathers looked kfter them,and often secretly put animals in, to encourage thelittle fellows to try again. Soon the toy bow and arrows were laid aside forstrono-er ones; but there were man\ thina-s tolearn besides merely to shoot. The l)oy mustknow what birds he should find in May, and whatones in October. He was tauglit the birds colors,how one differed from another in delicate shades ofbreast and wing, in l^eak and foot. He learnedtheir calls, and the meaning of tlicm, and hewatched them until he knew all their EARLIEST DAYS IN AMERICA. 75 About animals, lie learned in the same way—where rabbits and hares burrowed ; in what un-derbrush it was easiest to catch them ; and hun-dreds of things that all American boys want toknow to this day. By the time the leaves had returned twelye sea-sons, which was the way Indians reckoned years,the boy usually knew how to make and to use hislarofe bow and arrow, how to make canoes andquintans, and many other thino-s. He knew howto fish and to hunt for large game. Prol)ably hehad l)eo-un to go alone on dangerous undertakings,and his father had begun to teach him some of theman} things a warrior must know. HOW aUINTANS WERE MADE. Perhaps the boys enjoyed boat-making betterthan anything else except hunting. From this pic-ture you can describe their boat-making for your-selves. You can see just how the trees were burneddown near the roots, the l)ranches and the topsburned off, leaving logs of the rig
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