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Hence you will never hear a French or half-breed resident of the country mention an Indian in any other style. "Such a person is a 'Court-oreille." "Is that woman a 'Winnebago'?" "No, she is a 'Folle Avoine." In this manner a stranger is somewhat puzzled at first to classify the acquaintances he forms.
Here were some hundred yards of shallow water, filled with the tall graceful plant, named by the Jesuits 'folle avoine, and by the English 'wild rice. The long drooping ears filled with very large grains, black outside and white within, shook down their contents into the silt at bottom with every movement which waved their seven-feet stems.
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