"I can give ye a good thick bannock and some whitefish.

Our stores are no so plentiful the now." They took off their furs and glanced about the place while their host was busy at the stove.

The room was large, and its walls of narrow logs were chinked with clay and moss.

Guns and steel traps hung upon them; the floor was made of uneven boards which had obviously been split in the nearest bluff; and the furniture was of the simplest and rudest description.

The room had, however, an air of supreme comfort to the famishing newcomers, and after the first few minutes they found it delightfully warm.