of wonders! two ducks fell instead of one.

"Well done, Ted, that duck was twins," cried his father, laughing, almost
as excited as the boy himself, and they ran to pick up the birds. Kalitan
smiled, too, and quietly picked up one, saying:

"This one Kalitan's," showing, as he spoke, his arrow through the bird's
side, for he had discharged an arrow as Ted fired his gun.

"Too bad, Ted. I thought you were a mighty hunter, a Nimrod who killed
two birds with one stone," said Mr. Strong, but Ted laughed and said:

"So I got the one I shot at, I don't care." They had wild duck at
supper that night, for Chetwoof plucked the birds and roasted them on a
hot stone over the spruce logs, and Ted, tired and wet and hungry,
thought he had never tasted such a delicious meal in his life.




CHAPTER IV

TED MEETS MR. BRUIN


It seemed to Ted as if he had scarcely touched the pillow on the nights
which followed before it was daylight, and he would awake to find the sun
streaming in at his tent flap. He always meant to go fishing with Kalitan
before breakfast, so the moment he woke up he jumped out of bed, if his
pile of fragrant pine boughs covered with skins could be called a bed,