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lawful prey they said and torture was his due.
The men at the fort were sorry for the poor
wretch, but could not afford to anger the fierce
Blackfeet. So they said: ‘We'll keep him for
you for a month, and then we'll hand him over.
But when we let him out he must have one
hundred yards start of you.” To this the
Blackfeet agreed, and a month later to the day
they came back after their prisoner, as blood-
thirsty as ever.

So the Cree was put out of tii fort and
placed one hundred yards ahead of his pur-
suers. ‘Then the chase began. Wonderful to
relate the Cree, though shorter and slighter,
got away from the vigorous Blackfeet, out-
running them without trouble and turning back
to jeer at them before he disappeared alto-
gether !”

“Good!” paca Betty and clapped her fonds
“But how did he manage it?”

“T’ll tell you the secret. For the whole
month his friends in the fort had made him
run around the palisade for an hour at a time
twice every day. It was practice did it, nothing.
else. And that’s what’s going to make a strong

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man and a rider out of Arthur here!

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