[Illustration:  An Indian Baby.]

The men, women, and children wear clothes made of skin.  They often wear blankets as shawls are worn by white people.  Their shoes are made of deerskin and have no soles.  They are called moccasins.

[Illustration:  Moccasins.]

In many places the Indians now have schools, and the little Indian boys and girls go to school every day.  Our government has sent teachers to teach them.  They learn to read and write and count.

But the Indian boys and girls learn a great many things at home.  Their fathers tell them about birds and beasts and trees and rivers.  And they teach the boys to hunt and fish, and train them up to be brave in war.

The Indian boys and girls have a great many games.  The boys play with bows and arrows.  They play “blindman’s buff,” and “hunt the slipper,” and handball and football.  The girls take part in the football.  One of their games is the “stick and ring” game.  The ring is made of skin and is sometimes covered with beads.  Each boy has a stick, and he throws it at the ring while it is rolling along the ground.  The game is to send the stick through the ring.  Every boy tries to strike every other boy’s stick to stop it from going through the ring.

The Indian boys sometimes play at fighting battles.  They form themselves into two armies, and one army fights against the other.  They fight with balls of wet clay.  Often the battle lasts two or three hours.

Indian girls have dolls, and they dress them and sing them to sleep.  They play “house,” and often have doll-house moving.

[Illustration:  Indian Girls.]

Indian men and boys are fond of swimming, and they are very good swimmers.  They are also fond of sailing in their canoes.  The canoe is made of the bark of the birch tree.  The Indians paddle their canoes.  They can make them go very fast.

Many of the Indians now live in houses and have farms the same as white men, and they raise corn and vegetables and fruit.  They have horses and cows and sheep as other farmers have.  And we may hope that before long the Red Men will live in the same way as white men, and be as well off and as happy.

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

The Philippine Islands are far away on the other side of the earth, near China.  There are a great many of these islands.  Most of them are small.  But some of them are large islands, and many people live on them.  The largest of the islands is called Luzon.  The largest town in this island is Manila.

Many tribes of people live in the Philippine Islands.  Each tribe has a language of its own.