See,"-- he held up both hands and then stuck up a small twig in the sand to indicate the number ten.

Ten of these small twigs he set in a row and by a larger stick indicated a hundred, and so on till he had set forth in the sandy soil a diagrammatic representation of a hundred thousand men, the Indians following closely his every movement.

"And all these men," he continued, "are armed with rifles and with great big guns that speak like thunder.

And these are only a few of the White Mother's soldiers.

How many Indians and half-breeds do you think there are with rifles ?" He set in a row sticks to represent a thousand men.