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"And, anyway, I guess you were right. I'd slacked on those pelts and knew it, and and that's what made me mad you lighting on it." The two men shook hands, and Alec, as he withdrew his, passed it across his forehead and ran his fingers through his hair. "But say, Murray," he went on, in a tone of friendliness that rarely existed between them. "I'm sick.
After a moment he began: "I don't know how it started. I'd lost a lot of pelts stolen they were, down on the Child o' Sin River. Well, she was hasty and nervous, like as not she always was brisker and more sudden than I am. I I laid my powder-horn and whisky-flask-up there!" He pointed to the little shrine of the Virgin, where now his candles were burning.
So successful had been the fur hunters in their trapping the fur-bearing animals such as the silver foxes, beavers, otters, minks, and others whose rich pelts are very valuable, that the Hudson Bay Trading Company resolved to send up to Norway House a second brigade of boats to take up the surplus cargo left by the first brigade, and also to bring down a cargo of supplies for the extra trade, which was so rapidly developing.
"D'ri," said he, quietly, as he threw some wood on the fire, "they smell mutton. Mek the guns ready. We may git a few pelts. There's a big bounty on 'em here 'n York State." We all stood about the fire listening as the wolves came nearer. "It 's the sheep thet brings 'em," said my father. "Quite a consid'able number on 'em, tew," said D'ri, as he stood cleaning the bore of his rifle.
In the winter the boy went to school in the village of Bidwell and as he was even then an energetic, pushing youth, already intent on getting on in the world, he set traps in the forest and on the banks of streams and walked the trap line on his way to and from school. In the spring he sent his pelts to the growing town of Cleveland where they were sold.
The snow became iced over, destroying rabbit and grouse, which feed the large game. Radisson noticed that the Indians often snatched food from the hands of hungry children. More starving Crees continued to come into camp. Soon the husbands were taking the wives' share of food, and the women were subsisting on dried pelts.
She could appreciate the wild joy of a return for a brief season to the company of fellow-men. When her glance fell upon the last of the canoes, it rested with a flash of surprise. The craft was still floating idly, its bow barely caught against the bank. The crew had deserted, but amidships, among the packages of pelts and duffel, sat a stranger, The canoe was that of the post at Kettle Portage.
He leaned on the bar, and the woman hastily drew to the middle of the floor the great buffalo robe which was her usual bed. She also brought a panther's hide rolled up to serve as a pillow. The horribly staring eyes of Palafox followed her motions. "There's something ails my heart, I tell you." He stumbled upon the bed of pelts and lay sprawling. "More drink! water! brandy! quick!"
We shall have to leave the skinning of him and the snake until to-morrow morning; and I only hope that the jackals will not spoil the pelts meanwhile." Feeling their way carefully, they skirted the margin of the lake for some distance until they came to what they were seeking, namely, a break in the belt of encircling reeds.
The business of breeding rabbits for their fur has been introduced into the United States, and large numbers have been successfully raised in Danbury, Conn., for felting purposes connected with the manufacture of hats. The Skunk furnishes the fur known as Alaska Sable, which forms one of our staple pelts, many thousands being annually exported to Poland and the adjacent provinces.
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