A broad ash wood hoop he had made ready and when the
green rawhide was strained on it again the Indian had an Indian
drum.
It was not truly dry for two or three days and as it tightened on
its frame it gave forth little sounds of click and shrinkage that
told of the strain the tensioned rawhide made. Quonab tried it
that night as he sat by the fire softly singing:
"Ho da ho-he da he."
But the next day before sunrise he climbed the hill and sitting
on the sun-up rock he hailed the Day God with the invocation, as
he had not sung it since the day they left the great rock above
the Asalnuk, and followed with the song:
"Father, we thank thee; We have found the good hunting. There is
meat in the wigwam."
Chapter 22. The Line of Traps
Now that they had the cabin for winter, and food for the present,
they must set about the serious business of trapping and lay a
line of deadfalls for use in the coming cold weather. They were
a little ahead of time, but it was very desirable to get their
lines blazed through the woods in all proposed directions in case
of any other trapper coming in. Most fur-bearing animals are to
be found along the little valleys of the stream: beaver, otter,
mink, muskrat, coon, are examples.
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