for that smart
old squaw."

[Illustration: Bull-Calf's Teepee.]

Under Caleb's directions the breezy side of the cover was now raised a
little, and the shady side much more. This changed the teepee from a
stifling hothouse into a cool, breezy shade.

"An' when ye want to know which way is the wind, if it's light, ye wet
your finger so, an' hold it up. The windy side feels cool at once, and
by that ye can set your smoke-flaps."

"I want to know about war bonnets," Yan now put in. "I mean about
things to do to wear feathers--that is, things _we_ can do."

"Ye kin have races, an' swimmin' an bownarrer shootin'. I should say
if you kin send one o' them arrers two hundred yards that would kill a
Buffalo at twenty feet. I'd think that was pretty good. Yes, I'd call
that way up."

"What--a _grand coup?_"

"Yes, I reckon; an' if you fell short on'y fifty yards that'd still
kill a Deer, an' we could call that a _coup_. If," continued
Caleb, "you kin hit that old gunny-sack buck plunk in the heart at
fifty yards first shot I'd call that away up; an' if you hit it at
seventy-five yards in the heart no matter how many tries, I'd call
you a shot. If you kin hit a nine-inch bull's-eye two out of three at
forty yards every time an' no fluke, you'd hold your own among Injuns
though I must say they don't go in much for shooting at a target. They
shoot at 'most anything they see in the woods. I've seen the little
copper-coloured kids shooting away at butterflies. Then they have
matches--they try who can have most arrers in the air at one time. To
have five in the air at once is considered good. It means powerful
fast work and far shooting. You got to hold a bunch handy in the left
hand fur that. The most I ever seen one man have up at once was eight.
That was reckoned 'big medicine,' an' any one that can keep up seven
is considered swell."

"Do you know any other things besides bows and arrows that would do?"

"I think that a rubbing-stick fire ought to count," interrupted Sam.
"I want that in coz Guy can't do it. Any one who kin do it at all gets
a feather, an' any one who kin do it in one minute gets a swagger
feather, or whatever you call it; that takes care of Yan and me an'
leaves Guy out in the cold."

"I'll bet I kin hunt Deer all round you both, I kin."

"Oh, shut up, Sappy; we're tired a-hearing about your Deer hunting.
We're going to abolish that game." Then Sam continued, apparently
addressing Caleb, "Do you kn