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Two things there are, sad beyond all 

 other: a great mind's slow undoing; the 

 untimely stroke that makes sudden wreck 

 of a noble frame. How little in the bearing 

 of this figure shambling to a seat by the 

 fire that recalls the man upon whom, alike 

 in movement and repose, the gaze was wont 

 to rest with such content! Yet, his 

 undimmed eye roves the horizons of the Roy 

 des Fleiives, discerning afar the faint signs 

 of coming change, and the unquenched 

 spirit loves to pursue old forest trails, to 

 follow once again the tossing white water- 

 ways. 



In admiration of a companion among a 

 thousand, in gratitude for much taught, a 

 little learned, I gather these few memories. 



Indian of the three-quarter blood, his 

 parental grandfather French, he unites the 

 high qualities of the race. Taciturn but 

 never morose, meeting good fortune and ill 

 with an equal mind, full of resource in 

 emergency, cheerfully undertaking what- 

 ever was within the powers of a man, he 

 was ever considerate of the weaker and the 

 less experienced ; ready to add the burden 

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