Tlie Home of the Wolverene and Beaver. yy 



said Groves, with visible satisfaction, "for when 

 they have gone we shall be able to roam about 

 a little, and get some shooting. The cunning 

 rascals," he added, "they knew well enough that 

 fresh stores had reached the house some days ago, 

 and have only kept away to tantalise us, and lead 

 us to suppose that they had gone to some rival 

 trader. They will now make a great favour of 

 trading with the Company, and will demand all 

 sorts of presents. They are a pretty deep lot, 

 whatever people may say ; are they not, Pierre } " 



" // y a, there is von Ojeeb chief, who have 

 cheat me of my traps il y a deux ans, two year 

 past. // sappelle Tvte-dc-bois, suppose he come 

 here, I shall beat his head of wood." 



" Well, don't commence hostilities until we have 

 got all the skins," said Groves, laughing. " But 

 come along, we must get ready to receive them 

 with due honours." 



At Osnaburg House there were only five men 

 besides the officer in charge, namely, three labourers, 

 an interpreter, and a postmaster. What on earth 

 can a postmaster do at a place where letters only 

 arrive twice or thrice a year } will be the first 

 question the reader puts to himself, and to answer 

 it satisfactorily I must state that there are six 

 grades in the Hudson's Bay Company's service. 



