FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



PART SECOND 



About the middle of the winter that followed, a 

 messenger from one of the hospitals came to me 

 and said that an Indian by the name of Charlo, 

 who was a patient in the institution, suffering from 

 frozen feet, wished to see me. I answered the 

 summons at once, and found my quondam com- 

 panion of the preceding summer, minus several toes, 

 but otherwise convalescing. While caribou hunt- 

 ing he had broken through the ice, and before he 

 could reach his camp, both feet were badly frozen. 

 It was Angus McTavish who found him, and with 

 infinite toil had drawn him out to the settlement 

 on a toboggan, from whence he was brought in to 

 the hospital in Quebec. 



" Hein ! " said he, " you 'av' de good 'eart for 

 come see a h'ole Injin man, rnsieu\ I would not 

 h'ax you for come but for de grand communica- 

 tion which I 'av' for mak'." 



" Found a new fishing ground in the river 

 for us to try next summer, I suppose," said I, at 

 random. 



^^ Baguette ! non, ni sieu\ it ees more strange dan 

 h'all does tings. Attendez, rn sieu\ for I would not 

 spik loud for it ees not that 'e should yet know of 



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