Then he cuts a hole in the ice, and lies down on the blanket and industriously watches the hole.

You know that fish are very inquisitive, and when Mr.Inquiring Fish comes along to see about that hole, Mr.Indian spears him just back of the head, pulls him out, and has fried fish for supper.
When Whitey beat it down to the river, to show his boots to a new audience, he was followed by Injun and Sitting Bull.

Trouble was following, too,--Harrowing Trouble,--but Whitey didn't know it.

On the frozen river were about a dozen tepees, standing up something like big stacks of cornstalks on a field of frosted glass.

So there probably were about a dozen Indians, lying on their stomachs, watching as many holes in the ice.
There was not one of those Indians that Whitey thought should miss seeing those boots.