Identifier: youngnimrodsinno00knox (find matches)
Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

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were constructed of poles and buffalo hides—the poles being arranged so as to enclose a circle, and meeting at the top,where they were held together by a band of rawhide. The frameworkthus formed was covered with hides sewed together. An opening wasleft at the top for the escape of the smoke, and another in the side servedas a door. The officer led the way inside one of the lodges, and the boys followed.There was not much to be seen there, and the place was so filled withsmoke from a fire that burnt in the centre of the floor that the eyes ofthe visitors were affected to tears. The usual custom among the Indiansis to make a fire on the ground in the middle of the lodge, and let thesmoke get out the best Avay it can. The most of it goes through theopening already described, and the balance mixes with the enclosed air,and is anything but agreeable to a stranger unaccustomed to live in a •/ o o o smoky atmosphere. Two tents belonging to the chief and his family 192 THE YOUNG NIMRODS.
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and out of thembaby on her back,; nearwasifter AN INDIAN VILLAGE. method. In an open meadow just back ofthe village a herd of Indian ponies hadbeen turned out to feed. Some of theanimals were in fine condition, while others were thin in flesh, and seemedto have just arrived from a long march. The officer gave a quick glanceat them, and said the Indians had recently come in from a buffalo-hunt,and their ponies showed signs of rough usage. They would be likelyto remain for a week or two where they were, to give the animals achance to recuperate. Indian ponies have a hard life to lead. They are badly fed and badlytreated, and it is proverbial that the red men are the worst masters in theworld in their treatment of horse-flesh. When on the march or in the PECULIARITIES OF INDIAN LIFE. hunt, they frequently ride their animals to death, and if a pony gives outhis owner deserts him without the slightest compunction. In winter theponies get very thin, and are quite useless so far as any servi

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