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Title: Winter Adventures of Three Boys

Author: Egerton R. Young

Illustrator: J.E. Loughlin

Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21246]

Language: English

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Winter Adventures of Three Boys

By Egerton R. Young
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WINTER ADVENTURES OF THREE BOYS

BY EGERTON R. YOUNG

CHAPTER ONE.

SAGASTA-WEEKEE--A HAPPY HOME IN THE GREAT LONE LAND--THREE BOYS THERE
WELCOMED--THE SUDDEN COMING OF WINTER--VARIOUS SPORTS DISCUSSED--HURRAH
FOR THE DOGS--USEFUL ANIMALS--DOG-WHIPS--KINESASIS, THE DOG-KEEPER.

While a wintry storm was raging outside, in the month of November, three
happy, excited boys were gathered around the breakfast table in a cozy
home in a far North Land.

To those who have not read of the previous doings of these young lads we
would say that our heroes were three noble boys from across the sea.
They had come out the previous summer from Great Britain by the Hudson
Bay Company's ship and had had several months of most delightful and
exciting adventures in the wild North Land. They were the guests of Mr
Ross, a retired official in the Hudson Bay Company, who, when his long
term of active service in the fur trade had ended, had preferred
remaining in the country rather than returning to any other land.
During the many years he had traded with the Indians he had ever been on
the most friendly terms with them. He had observed so many noble traits
and characteristics in them that he and his family preferred spending
the greater portion of each year surrounded by them. Then the quiet
charm of such a life had more attraction and a greater fascination for
them than the rush and worry and demands of our so-called highest
civilisation.

Mrs Ross was a native Indian woman, but, like many other wives of
Hudson Bay officials, was a highly educated woman. The years spent in
f