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AWAY IN THE WILDEIiNESS.
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CHAPTER II.
THE THREE FRIENDS.
WHEN the hunter had stood for full five
minutes gazing at the beautiful scenery
by which he was surrounded, it suddenly occurred
to him that a pipe would render him much more
capable of enjoying it; so he sat down on the
trunk of a fallen tree, leaned his gun on it, pulled
the fire-bag from his belt, and began to fill his
pipe, which was one of the kind used by the
savages of the country, with a stone head and a
wooden stem. It was soon lighted, and Jasper
was thinking how much more clear and beautiful
a landscape looked through tobacco smoke, when
a hand was laid lightly on his shoulder. Looking
quickly round, he beheld a tall dark-faced Indian
standing by his side.
Jasper betrayed neither alarm nor surprise ;
for the youth was his own comrade, who had
merely come to tell him that the canoe in which
they had been travelling together, and which had
been slightly damaged, was repaired and ready for
service