Chapter I: Front Matter

THE RED FEATHERS

INDIAN AND HUNTING STORIES FOR BOYS

COMRADES OF THE TRAILS
By THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS
Cloth decorative, illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. $1.50

A breezy tale of adventures in the Canadian wilds.

FLYING PLOVER
By THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS
Cloth decorative, illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. $1.25

A story of Indian life in Labrador.

THE RED FEATHERS
By THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS
Cloth decorative, illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. $1.50

A story of remarkable adventures when the world was young.

RALPH SOMERBY AT PANAMA
By FRANCIS RALEIGH
Cloth decorative, illustrated. $1.50

A story of adventures with the Indians, Spaniards and roving pirates
in the 16th century.

HAWK: THE YOUNG OSAGE
By C. H. ROBINSON
Cloth decorative, illustrated. $1.25

A story of Indian life and adventures in the 15th century.

LONGHEAD
By C. H. ROBINSON
Cloth decorative, illustrated. $1.00

An interesting book of prehistoric times.

THE YOUNG MOOSE HUNTERS
By C. A. STEPHENS
Cloth decorative, illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. $1.25

A stirring story of adventures in the wilds of Maine.

THE PAGE COMPANY
53 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

The Red Feathers

A Story of Remarkable Adventures
When the World Was Young

By Theodore Roberts

AUTHOR OF “BROTHERS OF PERIL,” “HEMMING THE ADVENTURER,” ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED BY_
Charles Livingston Bull

Boston The Page
Company Publishers

_Copyright, 1907_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London_

_All rights reserved_

Second Impression, June, 1908
Third Impression, January, 1913
Fourth Impression, December, 1915
Fifth Impression, September, 1919

THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. “RUN-ALL-DAY” 1

II. THE TWO RED FEATHERS 7

III. THE LITTLEST WARRIOR AND HIS SUMMER HOME 15

IV. BRIGHT ROBE TELLS A STORY OF THE RED FEATHERS 20

V. RUN-ALL-DAY’S NEW-FOUND AMBITION 30

VI. RUN-ALL-DAY VISITS WHISPERING GRASS 38

VII. BRIGHT ROBE FINDS HIS ENEMY 47

VIII. THE YOUTH RECOVERS HIS STRENGTH AND VISITS RUN-ALL-DAY 56

IX. THE LITTLE BROWN OWL HUNTS FOR FOOD 73

X. THE LITTLE BROWN OWL HAS MORE TROUBLE 81

XI. THE MAGIC LODGE 90

XII. THE ADVENTURE OF JUMPING WOLF 100

XIII. RUN-ALL-DAY AGAIN MAKES USE OF THE RED FEATHERS 112

XIV. THE GOOD MAGICIAN VISITS RUN-ALL-DAY’S NEW VILLAGE 124

XV. THE LITTLEST WARRIOR’S GREAT PROSPECTS 136

XVI. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE BROWN OWL 143

XVII. A BRIEF RETURN TO POWER 153

XVIII. THE MAKER OF CHIEFS 168

XIX. THE THEFT OF THE RED FEATHERS 178

XX. A JOURNEY TO THE MAGIC FOREST 189

XXI. THE QUEST OF THE FEATHERS 202

XXII. WISE-AS-A-SHE-WOLF AND CRACK BONE THE GIANT 213

XXIII. HOW CRACK BONE WAS DOUBLY OUTWITTED 220

XXIV. THE MAGICIANS AWAKE 229

XXV. THE UNFINISHED BATTLE 238

XXVI. BRIGHT ROBE’S DISCRETION 249

XXVII. THE DIPLOMACY OF BRIGHT ROBE 257

XXVIII. THE QUEST 269

XXIX. PEACE 278

XXX. THE POISONED DART 288

XXXI. THE FREEZING OF THE NARROW SEA 297

XXXII. THE INVASION OF THE ISLAND 304

XXXIII. THE RESCUE OF STAR FLOWER 315

XXXIV. REST 319

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE

“SPED HERE AND THERE THROUGH THE AIR, SWIFT AS
A CHASING HAWK” (_See Page 25_) _Frontispiece_

“A GREAT STAG CARIBOU, AS HIGH AS A PINE, HAUNTED
THE WILDS” 1

“THE ASTONISHED BUNNY HAD DEALT HIM A SHREWD
BLOW WITH ONE OF HIS BIG HIND LEGS” 75

“HERE A GOD STOOD HUGE AND BLACK AGAINST A SUNSET
SKY, LOOKING OUT ACROSS A DARKENING WORLD” 95

“HE SPRANG ASIDE INTO THE SHELTER OF A TREE
TRUNK, AND PEERED BACK ALONG THE WAY HE HAD COME” 105

“RED EYE UNTIED THE OPENING OF HIS WIGWAM, AND
THE OWL FLOATED FROM HIS PERCH” 154

“HE CLIMBED A HIGH TREE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOOD” 199

“THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF THE GIANT IMMEDIATELY
APPEARED, AND FROM UNDER A FRINGE OF TANGLED HAIR A
PAIR OF ALERT EYES, GRAY AS ICE, GLARED ABOUT” 213

“THEY PASSED BENEATH HIM, WHITE AS FROST AND DEATH” 272

THE RED FEATHERS