CHAPTER TWENTY.

NEW PLANS--OUR TRAVELLERS JOIN THE FUR-TRADERS, AND SEE MANY STRANGE THINGS--A CURIOUS FIGHT--A NARROW ESCAPE, AND A PRISONER TAKEN.

Not long after the events related in the last chapter, our four friends, Dick, and Joe, and Henri, and Crusoe, agreed to become for a time members of Walter Cameron's band of trappers. Joe joined because one of the objects which the traders had in view was similar to his own mission, namely, the promoting of peace among the various Indian tribes of the mountains and plains to the west. Joe, therefore, thought it a good opportunity of travelling with a band of men who could secure him a favourable hearing from the Indian tribes they might chance to meet with in the course of their wanderings. Besides, as the traders carried about a large supply of goods with them, he could easily replenish his own nearly exhausted pack by hunting wild animals and exchanging their skins for such articles as he might require.

Dick joined because it afforded him an opportunity of seeing the wild, majestic scenery of the Rocky Mountains, and shooting the big-horned sheep which abounded there, and the grizzly "bars," as Joe named them, or "Caleb," as they were more frequently styled by Henri and the other men.

Henri joined because it was agreeable to the inclination of his own rollicking, blundering, floundering, crashing disposition, and because he would have joined anything that had been joined by the other two.

Crusoe's reason for joining was single, simple, easy to be expressed, easy to be understood, and commendable. _He_ joined--because Dick did.

Answer this series of questions:

1. How many friends does Joe have?
2. What group did they join?
3. What was Dick's reason for coming into the group?
4. What kind of animals did he was to hunt?
5. Why did Henri join?
6. Would he have followed his friends anyway?
7. What about Joe's reason?
8. In what location?
9. Was someone else planning to do this too?
10. What about Crusoe's reason?
11. Is this hard to understand?
12. How would Joe replace his supplies?
13. What would he do with the skin?
14. With who?
15. Did they have plenty of stuff?
16. Who is Joe hoping to meet with?
17. Where is he hoping to run across them?
18. Who does he think can help him with this?
19. Who has a fun loving personality?
20. What did Joe call bears?
1. four
2. Walter Cameron's band of trappers
3. seeing the Rocky Mountains
4. big-horned sheep
5. it was agreeable to his disposition,
6. Yes
7. promoting of peace among the various Indian tribes
8. the mountains and plains to the west.
9. the traders
10. He_ joined--because Dick did.
11. No
12. hunting wild animals
13. exchanging for articles
14. traders
15. Yes
16. Indian tribes
17. in the course of their wanderings
18. Walter Cameron's band of trappers
19. Henri
20. "bars,"