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Faithless Jehu The "Blarney Stone" Mennonites in search of News "Water, Water everywhere" A Herd of Buffaloes A Mud Village Pointe du Chene and Old Nile At Dawson Route A Cheerful Party Toujours perdrix The "Best Room" A Government Shanty Cats and Dogs Birch River Mushroom-picking The Mosquito Plague A Corduroy Road The Cariboo Muskeg.
Sir John's was a baronetcy created a few years before the breaking out of the Civil War, and his lands were even more extensive than those of Lord Uplandtowers himself; comprising this Manor of Chene, another on the coast near, half the Hundred of Cockdene, and well-enclosed lands in several other parishes, notably Warborne and those contiguous.
They had one consolation, however: the train that had been believed to be lost came crawling along out of the Chene road.
Account brought to the people of Detroit of the loss of Vincennes, by a Captain Chêne, who was then living in the village. Had he charged he could probably have taken it at once; for so unprepared were the garrison that the first rifle shots were deemed by them to come from drunken Indians. But of course he had not counted on such a state of things.
He took his brother Squire Boone, Stephen and William Hancock, Colonel Richard Callaway, Settler Flanders, and three others. They carried no arms, for Captain Chêne was unarmed. "We will halt within fair rifle-shot," said Captain Boone, to the remaining men. "Do you cover us well and watch every movement." The nine sallied out and met Captain Chêne about forty yards in front of the gates.
Their red chiefs were Black Fish himself, Moluntha, Black Wolf and Black Beard; their captain was a French-Canadian named Isidore Chêne, of the British Indian department at Detroit. Under a white flag, Captain Chêne demanded the surrender of Fort Boonesborough.
But in the usual condition of those roads it is the first stopping-place from Winnipeg, and McQuade's, or "Little Pointe du Chene," as it is sometimes called, is familiar to all the engineers on the staff of that part of the Canada Pacific Railway.
The presence of his wife and mother prevented him from alluding more explicitly to the nature of the Emperor's complaint, which was an obstinate diarrhea that he had contracted at Chêne, and which compelled him to make those frequent halts at houses along the road.
About three miles from Pointe du Chene, a herd of buffalo feeding in the distance made us forget our misery for a moment. They had not been met with so near a civilized neighbourhood for years; the wet and stormy weather was the cause of their approach. I was disappointed in their appearance; they looked to me very like a herd of farm cattle, but seemed to feed closer together.
But he hardly recognized Chene in the midst of the hurly-burly and confusion into which the little town, ordinarily so dead, was thrown by the presence of an army corps encamped at its gates and filling its quiet streets with officers, couriers, soldiers, and camp-followers and stragglers of every description.
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