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Excerpt from Two Wilderness Voyagers: A True Tale of Indian Life
The crows had gathered at their rookeries among the tall pines of a bluff which over topped an Ojibwa village. Snow had melted Off the bark roofs of the wigwams and in their front - if they may be said to have had a front lay a far stretch Of blue-green ice shimmering under the April sun. TO and fro above this ice field the solemn harbingers Of Spring flapped their black wings. They scanned its barren space in vain search for open water and the float of winter killed fish. The occasional remon strant Aal-aal-asl! Of one Of these winging spec ters sounded a lean and melancholy note Of hunger. Now and then, too, within their range Of Vision, a wolf, bare Of rib and thin to the semblance Of a shadow, loped, a flitting wraith, across an arm Of the lake. Save for the scream Of a scolding jay, the chirrup Of a surviving bunting, or the chatter Of a red squirrel, the Spaces of the skeleton woods had been as the aisles Of the dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
