g ones if the
old gander were around. One blow of his powerful wing would kill any
fox. I have found dead foxes that have thus been killed."

Then, looking up, the old Indian said, in a voice that showed he was
deeply impressed by what he was uttering: "There was always some strange
mystery about their call to go south and their leaving. To-day they
would be acting as though they would be intending to stay with us all
the time. They were all very quiet and only busy in getting their food,
while the old ones were alert against their enemies, and would even risk
their lives to defend their young ones. Then to-morrow would come, and
there was such a change in them. They were all so excited and noisy;
their cries filled the air. The old ones would stretch their wings and
circle round and round in the air about their young ones and encourage
them to follow. Soon all of them would rise up and up, and, starting
away for the South Land, we would see them no more that year. And yet
not all, for sometimes there were late broods, like the one we found to-
day. They came too late to be strong enough to fly. They could not go,
and here is the mystery to me. Why was it that the parent geese, that
yesterday would risk their lives in fighting against wild animals to
save their young, would to-day, when the call came to go, leave their
young broods behind them to perish? They all did it. Never was an old
goose known to stay behind when the call came. That voice was louder
and stronger than was even the love for their offspring. Can any of you
tell old Kinesasis why it is so?"

CHAPTER THREE.

SELECTING THEIR DOGS--VARIOUS METHODS OF BREAKING THEM IN--FRANK'S
SUCCESS BY KINDNESS WITH MONARCH--SAM'S TROUBLES WITH SPITFIRE--
CONQUERED AT LAST--TRAINING AND CAPTURING DOGS WITH DOGS--ALEC'S TRAIN
OF PART STAGHOUNDS.

With this question of the old Indian ringing in their ears the party in
the kitchen broke up, and as the day had been a long one they all soon
retired to rest.

The boys were more than delighted with the day's experience, and were
full of joyful anticipation for the morrow, for then it was that they
were to select the dogs that were to constitute their own trains and at
once to begin the work of breaking them in. So long and soundly did
they sleep the next morning that the second breakfast bell was ringing
when they awoke, and so they had but little time in which to dress ere
breakfast was served. How