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canoe-maker, too, and do a bit o' liuntin' and trappin' 

 raouiid about, and raise some truck t'otlier side o' the 

 woods, and get out railroad ties. I've a camp o' my 

 own inside tiie first belt, and a wife, and she isn't a 

 squaw neither, and two young uns. You see Fve got 

 some property at last. Doc, in spite of being a sort of 

 wild Injun myself. We live in a log house, though ; 

 we'd choke in any other kind, — my woman an' me's 

 agreed on that. She was 'Toinette Fardeau — old 

 Dominique's daughter. You'll remember him ; he was 

 your guide the day you got that thunderin' big Bear. 

 All these your young uns, Jake?" 



'' What a queer man," said Dodo. '' And not very 

 polite. He calls Uncle Roy, Doc, and daddy, Jake. I 

 don't think he is nice." 



*' You must remember," said Olive, " that he has 

 been with them in wild places and they have shared 

 danger, and worked and hunted together as if they 

 were brothers, and when men do this, the Mister drops 

 away from tlieir names, and they feel to each other 

 as you and Xat and Rap do." 



" Of course they must," said Dodo, repentantly, "and 

 he picked tlie tree off daddy ; " so, witliout hesitating, 

 she walked up to him, liolding out her liand, and saying 

 solemnly, " Good morning, Mr. Long Nose, I'm glad to 

 meet you and thank you very much for taking the tree 

 off daddy's leg." 



" I want to know I " stuttered Nez, more surprised 

 than if a Grizzly Bear had spoken to him. 



Every one laughed then, and it did not take long to 

 explain Avhy they were there, aud how they Avere going 

 to cook dinner camp-fasliion ; and Nat feeling the sud- 



