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Rh adventurous to be contented in mere eating and drinking, and therefore gambled with an abandon that put to shame the very best modern efforts of our gilded youth.The white man plays to some limit, but these Indians had none.

Whenever any of these Indian communities on Puget Sound acquired enough portable property to make it worth while they sent out invitations to their neighbors for a meeting at some appointed place, and to this spot the Indians would flock from every point of the compass.! hey would bring with them their wives, children, dogs, horses, furs, lobes, weapons and every bit of their property that they could carry along, leaving nothing at home except their canoes and lodges. The prominent features of these aboriginal fairs or expositions were what might be called "agricultural horse trots."