Three Boys in the Wild North Land

By Young, Egerton Ryerson, Rev.

Book Id: WPLBN0000625531
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Title:	Three Boys in the Wild North Land
Author:	Young, Egerton Ryerson, Rev.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. Welcome to Sagasta?weekee?Mr Ross, their host?The three boys?Frank, Alec, Sam?The ?Prince Arthur??The Voyage?The Esquimaux?Arrival at York Factory. ?Welcome to this Wild North Land! welcome to our happy home in the Land of the North Wind! Welcome, thrice welcome, all and each one of you!? Thus excitedly and rapidly did Mr Ross address a trio of sunburnt, happy boys, who, with all the assurance of a joyous welcome, had burst in upon him in his comfortable, well?built home, or ?hunting lodge,? as he preferred to call it, on the banks of the Nelson River. This cozy but isolated home was situated some hundreds of miles up in the interior of the country from York Factory, on the Hudson Bay.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Three Boys in the Wild North Land, 1 -- Egerton Ryerson Young, 1 -- Chapter One. Welcome to Sagasta?weekee ? Mr Ross, their host ? The three boys ? Frank, -- Alec, Sam ? The ?Prince Arthur? ? The Voyage ? The Esquimaux ? Arrival at York Factory, 2 -- Chapter Two. Hudson Bay Company ? Frank's canoe mishap ? Duck shooting ? Clever Koona -- ? Goose hunting ? Queer battles, 6 -- Chapter Three. Writing Journals ? Fur?Laden Brigades ? Valuable Furs ? Hunting -- Preparations ? Big Tom, The Famous Guide ? The Start ? First Camp on the Rocks, 11 -- Chapter Four. The Early Call ? The Picturesque Route ? The Toilsome Portages ? Rival -- Brigades ? First Bear ? Alec's Successful Shot, 15 -- Chapter Five. Robinson's Portage ? Gunpowder Transportation ? Hole in the Keg ? The -- Frightful Explosion ? Ensconced at Headquarters ? Delightful Home in the Wilderness ? -- Sturgeon Fishing ? Involuntary Plunges, 18 -- Chapter Six. Indian Implements ? Canoeing Excursion ? Gunpowder Versus Jack Fish ? -- Loon Shooting ? Sam's Successful Shot, 24 -- Chapter Seven. The Old Fort Camp ? Sam's Race with the Bear ? Indian Comments, 27 -- Chapter Eight. Preserving Meat ? Cunning Partridges ? Celestial Phenomenon ? The Fearful -- Hurricane ? Caught in the Storm ? Disaster ? The Mischievous Wolverine ? Alec's Shot, 30 -- Chapter Nine. Montreal Point ? The Governor and the Iroquois ? The Herd of Deer ? -- Ominous Sounds ? Packs of Wolves ? The Fierce Battle ? Welcome Reinforcements ? The -- Victory ? Playing ?Possum?, 36 -- Chapter Ten. Romantic Courtship ? The Happy Family ? A Canoe Picnic ? Mustagan ? A -- Prowling Bear ? A Woman's Shot, 42 -- Chapter Eleven. The Wonderful Story of Apetak, the Grateful Indian, and the Description of the -- Trip to and View of the Silver Cave, as told by Mr Ross at Sagasta?weekee, 46 -- Chapter Twelve. Novel Fishing ? Guns and Gaff Hooks ? Frank's Plunge ? Light?hearted -- Sam and his Story ? Strange Battle ? Pugnacious Jack Fish, 49 -- Chapter Thirteen. Mission Village ? Self?Denying Toilers ? Pleasant Visits ? Flourishing -- School ? Syllabic Characters ? Competitive Sports ? Archery ? Foot Races ? Wrestling ? -- Swimming ? Canoe Races, 53 -- Chapter Fourteen. Conjurers ? Old Tapastanum ? Boasting ? Challenge Accepted ? -- Medicine Man's Tent ? Bogus Bullet ? Detected ? Conjurer's Defeat and Fall, 58 -- Chapter Fifteen. Outing ? Alec and Mustagan's Shooting Contest, or Gun versus Bow and -- Arrow?Shooting the Swans ? Was Sam Cross?eyed? ? The Return Trip ? The Escape of the -- Doe and Fawn from the Wolf, 61 -- Chapter Sixteen. The Old Fort again ? Aurora Borealis ? Unexpected Arrivals ? Fur Traders -- ? Head Winds ? Camp Annoyances ? Camp Fire Yarns, 64 -- Chapter Seventeen. The Story of Pukumakunun ? Loosing his Tongue ? His Early Days ? -- Excursion for Buffalo ? Treacherous Quicksands ? Sinking Mother ? Sagacious Horse ? -- Sneaking Wolves ? Rattlesnake and Prairie Dog, 67 -- Chapter Eighteen. Pukumakun's Story Continued ? Searching for Friends ? Pathless Prairie ? -- Angry Relations ? Avengers of Blood Unappeased ? Race for Life ? Overtaken ? First -- Conflict ? Arrow against Tomahawk ? Opportune Arrival, 70 -- Chapter Nineteen. ?Fair Wind!? ? Fish Spearing by Torchlight ? The Shining Eyes ? Death of -- the Deer ? Abundance of Game ? Additional Excursions ? Tradition of Nanahboozoo and the -- Flood ? Was Nanahboozoo Noah?, 73 -- Chapter Twenty. The Call of the Moose ? Preparations For Capture ? Midnight March ? -- Rival Bulls ? A Royal Battle ? Frank's Shot ? Big Tom, the Successful Moose Hunter ? -- Three Boys in the Wild North Land -- i