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APPENDIX [D]. 
BIBLE SOCIETY. 
Sunday the 2nd Sept. After Divine Service in the Afternoon we had a 
Meeting to arrange an Auxiliary Bible Society at which Mr. West wished me 
to take the Chair—which of course I did. Several very excellent Resolutions 
were passed. I subscribed £50 for the Company and £130 was subscribed 
altogether. Knowing the Sentiments of the Committee I was anxious to 
encourage the Meeting feeling it would encourage religious Feelings in the 
Country. When in Montreal I had attempted the same Plan but in a dif- 
ferent Way. I had induced Mr. McLaughlin and Mr. Bethune to become 
Members of the Auxiliary Bible Society there and I had wished to have 
introduced a Correspondence with Mr. West and through him to have induced 
all the Officers and Gentlemen in the Company’s Service to become Members, 
thus drawing their Attention to more serious Thoughts and introducing in 
the Country religious Feelings which hitherto have been so much neglected. 
* * * * * * * * * * * * * 
Indeed even in the best Hudson’s Bay [men] too little Attention was given 
to religious Matters. 
The Readiness of the Gentlemen to subscribe shows that they only wanted 
Encouragement to think rightly. 
APPENDIX [KE]. 
CANADIAN VOYAGEUR’S SONG. 
Derriére chez nous, il y a un etang? 
Ye, ye ment. 
Trois Canards s’en vont baignans 
Tous du long de la Riviére 
Légérement ma Bergère 
Légérement, ye ment. 
Trois Canards s’en vont baignans 
Ye, ye ment. 
Le Fils du Roi s’en va chassant 
Tous du long de la Riviére J 
Légérement ma Bergére 
Légérement, ye ment. 
Le Fils du Roi s’en va chassant 
Ye, ye ment. 
Avec son grand Fusil d’argent 
Tous du long de la Riviére 
Légérement ma Bergére 
Légérement, ye ment. 

1See Gagnon, pp. 12, 23, for versions of the popular French Canadian ballad ‘“ En 
roulant ma boule,” which is variably sung in the west of France.—Ed. Trans. R.S.C. 
