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This settled, we suggest that, first of all, 

 necessary articles should be marked down ; these 

 we mention one by one and he replies if he has 

 such already, good enough for another year, or 

 if we are to mark down the article. The first 

 essention, of course, is ammunition; so many 

 pounds of shot and powder and so many boxes 

 of percussion caps. Next on the list of his 

 wants would be an axe, or axes, an ice chisel, 

 steel traps, twine for a fish net, a few fish hooks, 

 two or three mill-saw files (to sharpen his ice- 

 chisel and axes) matches, a couple of bottles of 

 pain-killer and the same of castor oil, and some 

 thread and needles, (glovers and round). 



Then comes the imported provisions. To an 

 ordinary family of a man, his wife and two or 

 three children, he will take 200 pounds flour, 

 50 pounds compound lard, 10 pounds tea, the 

 same of tobacco, 2-pound cart of soda, 25 pounds 

 sugar, another perhaps 12 or 15 pounds pork. 

 This latter must be pure fat, meatless and bone- 

 less. 



When we get this far in his supplies, a pause 

 is called and he asks us to add up how much 

 the foregoing comes to. Say this amounts to 

 $100 and the amount agreed upon is $200, he 

 thus understands he has $100 yet to get, or as 

 much as whatever the balance may be. Then 

 he begins over again by taking heavy Hudson's 



