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When the meal, which was served by an Indian woman, was over, the little girl remained quietly in her chair while the eldest brother went out to sell the pack-pony. He returned late, delighted over making a fine bargain with a Canadian fur-trader, to find her waiting patiently but tremblingly for him.
"Fur-trader!" exclaimed Mr Kennedy. "Just look at him! I'll be shot if he isn't thrashing the mare as if she were made of leather." The old man's ire was rising rapidly as he heard the whip crack every now and then, and saw the mare bound madly over the snow. "And see!" he continued, "I declare he has taken the wrong turn after all."
The smoke of many fires curled upward, and near the blaze hovered ruddy-faced women who stirred the contents of steaming kettles. One man swung an axe with a vigorous sweep, and the clean, sharp strokes rang on the air; another hammered stakes into the ground on which to hang a kettle. Before a large cabin a fur-trader was exhibiting his wares to three Indians.
See, my neighbour is beginning to show signs of uneasiness, though the ground on which he stands is not much lower than my own." As he spoke, the old fur-trader pointed to the house of Angus Macdonald, where a large cart was being loaded with his property. Angus himself entered at the moment to beg leave to remove some of his valuables to his friend's barn.
That is the point. Nature has taken good care that climate and swamp shall erect an everlasting barrier to encroachment on her game preserves. To be sure, if you ask a fur-trader, "How are furs?" he will answer, "Poor poorer every year." So would you if you were a fur-trader and wanted to keep out rivals. I have never known a fur-trader who did not make that answer.
The fur-trader, moreover, is always the worst of colonists; since the increase of population, by diminishing the numbers of the fur-bearing animals, is adverse to his interest. But behind all this there was in the religious ideal of the rival colonies an influence which alone would have gone far to produce the contrast in material growth.
Champlain, the famous fur-trader, who represented the Company of the Hundred Associates, formed by Richelieu to monopolize the fur trade of New France and govern the country, sent an agent named Jean Nicolet, in 1634, to Green bay and Fox river to make a peace between the Hurons and the Winnebagoes in the interests of inter-tribal commerce.
Either this order did not apply to the cross-road which we now filed into, or the owners of adjacent lands paid no heed to it; for presently, a few rods ahead of us, we saw a snake fence barring the road and a man with a pack on his back in the act of climbing over it. He was going in the same direction that we were, and seemed to be a fur-trader laden with packets of peltry.
First, there had been a question of suzerainty between Dan Scott and the local representative of the Astor family, a big half-breed descendant of a fur-trader, who was the virtual chief of the Indians hunting on the Ste. Marguerite: settled by knock-down arguments.
Like all gamblers, he followed hunches. Soon, one of these told him, his chance would come. When it did he would make all three of them sweat blood. Beresford met Tom Morse later in the day. He cocked a whimsical eye at the fur-trader. "I hear McRae's going to sue you for damages to his house," he said.
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