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the six and seven year-olds in the Indian camps, and by August 

 they were worn as comforters and it wasn't a particularly 

 wet summer either ! 



KOOTKNAY INDIANS PONDERING OVER THEIR SHORT SHIRTS. 



But that was not quite the last I saw of these desirable 

 garments. In October circumstances arose which compelled me 

 to buy one of them myself for 2dols. 50 cents hard cash. It came 

 about this way. As the munificent salary of 4dols. a month, which 

 the Government paid to the postmaster of Grohman, held out 

 insufficient inducements to the several B.B.'s to whom I generouslv 

 offered the deputy post-mastership, nothing was left but to be my 

 own postmaster. 



The distributing office was at Golden, and the Grohman mails 



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