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OWEVER obnoxious I might have made myself 

 to the good citizens of Three Rivers, I 

 had earned by my attention and diligence in my 

 studies the good will of the school master. On 

 the day that I left school, he complimented me on 

 my application before the whole class and as a 

 mark of esteem, and with his best wishes, pre- 

 sented me with six fine books, five of which I have 

 kept to this day. 



They were "History of the World/' 2 vols., 

 by Samuel Mounder, 1855. "Comstock's Physio- 

 logy," 1853. The "Works of Dean Swift," by 

 the Rev. John Mitford, 1850. "Chronicles of the 

 Bastille," a work just published, 1859, and a 

 Compilation of Natural History, which I unfor- 

 tunately lost through th3 burning of one of my 

 trapping camps. 



On the 2nd of May I left Three Rivers to re- 

 turn home. I was to meet the family at Trinity 

 Bay, where my father had decided to settle. He 

 had left the H. B. Co.'s service owing to some 

 difference that had arisen between himself and 

 another chief trader, and to the desire of the com- 

 pany to send him back to Northwest River, where 

 he would not go. I had a long and tedious trip 

 down. On arriving in Quebec I was informed 



