If, when you kill, you are far from home, and want to pack your venison home yourself, the Indian fashion of packing and carrying is the simplest that I know.
By the way, when you have shot your bear (if you should shoot him), and when you have taken his hide off, be careful how you pack it upon any ordinary pony.
The only difficulty is that the head must be arranged as an extra pack or must be called for on a subsequent occasion.
As they tire, three or four others take their places, the pack running loosely after the leaders.
I was asleep, but was roused by shouts, the discharge of a musket, and the sudden rush of our pack of dogs.
Then, taking the pack of cards in your own hands, you offer it to a third member of the party, requesting him to select a card and examine it carefully.
The noise of the packpassed into distance--dwindling to deepest silence.
A Landes shepherd would cheat the devil with a greasy pack of cards.
They have even an episcopal chapel and a pack of fox-hounds.
Then the good-natured giant helped me to pack my box, invited Aus-der-Ohe and myself to a champagne lunch, and finally put me in the carriage that was to take me to my destination.
He fired, and the pack stopped to devour the fallen leader, while the horse plunged on.
With two Indians as companions, and a pack strapped to his back, Darby Field waved his good-bye to the group of settlers and started off.
Betty, pack the bread into that basket and ask your father to bring down our heaviest blankets!
With the whoop of the huntsman this gallant fellow set spurs to his horse, and charged the Indians with his trained pack of ferocious hounds.
This young man Haden was fond of field sports, and kept a large pack of hounds, trained to chase and seize any living thing upon which their master might set them.
I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine every day.
One patrit from a small town in Michygan went up on top the house, got into the chimney and slid into the parler where Old Abe was endeverin to keep the hungry pack of orfice-seekers from chawin him up alive without benefit of clergy.
She's sittin' in her igloo cold, Chewing on a muckluck sole, And the sun comes up at midnight From an ice-pack round the Pole.
Boreland slipped off his packand creeping toward the lake, disappeared in the Indian celery.
And the sun comes up at midnight From an ice-pack round the Pole.
Each day the men of the party went down to the first camp to pack provisions across the Island to what they called the West Camp, the place from which they expected to load them into the whale-boat and take them by water to the cabin.
He told us that a party of mountain men would leave Bent's Fort in a few days for St. Louis, but said we could not reach the fort with our pack animals in time to join the party.
When night came the pack mule was picketed near by and a big fire built, with plenty of wood to keep it replenished during the night.
The guide and myself forced in the pack animals and followed the Doctor's example, and were soon on the opposite shore drying our frozen clothes by a comfortable fire.
He told us that a party of mountain men would leave Bent's Fort in a few days for St. Louis, but said we would not reach the fort with our pack animals in time to join the party.
We passed the summit to the source of the Wabash, horseback, sleeping at an Indian house, where all the men were drunk, and kept up a howling that would have done credit to a pack of hungry wolves.
Whilst thus held, a pack of hungry wolves came that way and devoured the carcass of the moose before his eyes.
I had purchased a horse, constructed a packsaddle with my own hands, and made every preparation that was deemed necessary.
He, however, on examining it, refused to receive it, and demanded the pack of furs to go and pay his credit.
He says that he saw a remarkable instance of this at Point au Pins, on his way out, where young Holiday drew a dirk on an Indian on refusing to let him take a pack of furs from his canoe.
The dreaded reality of wintering in the pack is gradually forcing itself upon my mind,--but I must not write on this subject, it is bad enough to brood over it unceasingly.
Landed to obtain a good view of the sea in the offing; from the hills we could see nothing but pack to seaward.
Davis' Strait, where the winds probably blow with equal force from shore to shore and drift the whole pack at a uniform rate.
Occasionally she drifted to leeward of masses of ice, reminding us that if any of the dense pack which covered this sea only three weeks ago remained to leeward of us, we must be rapidly setting down upon its weather edge.
When the weather became clear, the main pack was seen to the W.
We were also enabled to lengthen our journeys, as we had very smooth ice to travel over, the off-lying islets keeping the rough pack from pressing in upon the shore.
Gradually the gale subsided, but not until the pack was close in against the land.
Strong east winds, with much rain, have imprisoned us here for the last four days, and driven the whole pack close in, completely filling up Creswell Bay.
The rolling sea can no longer be checked; "the packhas taken upon itself the functions of an ocean," as Dr.
Down river you go with me tonight, my lady, so you'd better tell that girl of yours to pack your duds.
