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in his cariole to Mrs. Tanguay's, for which I felt 

 very graceful, as well as for his very kind offer of 

 funds to meet our return expenses to Quebec, and 

 of a drive to Cape Chatte the next day, where I 

 wanted to make arrangements for horses and 

 sleighs to drive us up. The Labries had also an 

 uncle residing there, whom we wanted to see. 

 My brothers and Labries were sleeping when I re- 

 turned and I found a bed ready for me, but instead 

 of occupying it, I sat on a chair near the stove 

 and dropped asleep. I did not go to bed at all 

 that night, but sitting in the chair I woke now 

 and then and would take a few strides in the 

 house, sit down and go off to sleep again. Next 

 morning I felt no effects of the trip at all and had 

 been lucky in escaping without a frost bite. 



The news of our arrival on the South Shore 

 spread like wild-fire and about nine a.m. Mr. 

 Antoine Labrie came down for his nephews. Ac- 

 cording to his promise, Mr. Lamontagne came to 

 drive me up to Cape Chatte and advanced me one 

 hundred dollars for our expenses. At Cap 

 Chatte I arranged for three sleighs, on one of 

 which we fitted a sort of padded box seat, in 

 which we strapped my brother when we travelled. 

 His hands and feet were so swollen that he could 

 neither walk nor help himself. While at Cape 

 Chatte we were most hospitably entertained by 

 Mr. Antoine Labrie. He insisted on our remain- 

 ing two days with him to recuperate and to allow 

 of the roads getting somewhat better, which I 



