CHAP. II. 



LOUIS WIFE. 



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you Ve just hit the other side of it,' said my facetious 

 informant with a smile. ' Now I '11 tell you,' he con- 

 tinued : 'These Indians on the coast are strange people. 

 I was here fishing last summer when she came with 

 her father, the old man in the tent yonder, near 

 those squaws skinning the seal ; the priest was here 

 baptising, marrying, and I don't know what. Louis 

 saw the girl, and asked her to marry him : they had 



SEAT, HUNTING ON THE MOISIE. 



no time to lose ; the priest w r as going away in a couple 

 of days, not to come again for a twelvemonth, so the girl 

 consented, they spoke to the priest, and were made man 

 and wife in a jiffey. Well, two days after this wedding, 

 Louis went out with his wife to hunt seals : she steered 

 and he took the gun - - the way these Indians do. Louis 

 fired at the seals one after the other and missed them. 



