The Land of the W'inanishe 



brother-in-law, two parishes off, whose 

 symptoms are described at third hand, with 

 great emotion, but rather succinctly, as 

 " a frightful pain all over his body." He 

 becomes unwittingly a worker of " faith 

 cures." After his departure a quinine 

 pill, guaranteed to be from his box, will 

 cure anything from toothache to chronic 

 rheumatism. "Ah ! a doctor, sir, that ! 

 One of the first ! He knows all that ! He 

 is better than Panclare (Painkiller)! It 

 is I, I who speak, who say that," says old 

 Dieudonne Gaudreau, who, being ninety 

 years old, knows everything. But what- 

 ever doubt may rest on the cures, none 

 can exist as to the reality and severity of 

 the sufferings of these poor invalids, whose 

 comforts are few, and whose exposures and 

 hardships are many. 



Another pleasant variation is a visit to 

 the Grande Chute, either by canoe up the 

 Petite Decharge, or by road, with a tiny 

 maiden in a big sunbonnet to bring back 

 the quatre roue from the portage across the 

 head of Alma Island. The most reliable 

 fishing in the Grande Decharge is in the 

 coves and eddies for the first mile and a 

 half below and adjoining the rush of water 

 from the Grand Chute, which comes tear- 

 ing down from Lake St. John in foaming 



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