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And all the spell of that island, which since it rose from the water it has held, lay around them. Étienne St. Martin picked up a beaver-skin, and in the sight of 'Tite Laboise her husband laid hold of it. "Release that, Mange'-du-lard," he said. "Eh bien!" responded Étienne, knowing that he was challenged and the eyes of the whole yard were on him.
One pint of lyed corn with from two to four ounces of tallow was the daily allowance of a voyageur, and the endurance which this food gave him passes belief. Étienne St. Martin grumbled at it when he came fresh from Canada and pork eating. "Mange'-du-lard," his companions called him, especially Charle' Charette, who was the giant and the wearer of the black feather in his brigade of a dozen boats.
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