CHAPTER XVI.

Seymour Advises a Late Start for Goat Hunting; but His Council is Disregarded--We Start at Sunrise--A Queer Craft--Navigating Ski-ik-kul Lake--A "Straight-up" Shot at a Goat--Both Horns Broken Off in the Fall--More Rain and Less Fun--A Doe and Kid--Successful Trout Fishing--Peculiarities of the Skowlitz Tongue; Grunts, Groans and Whistles--John has Traveled--Seymour's Pretended Ignorance of English