204 GENUINE PHILOSOPHY. 



nice world it'll be when there is not a spot left that 

 doesn't belong to somebody, and not a thing to be seen 

 but bullocks here and pigs there ! And that things are 

 coming to this I have no doubt. See the change that 

 has taken place about Winnipeg within the last few 

 years." 



" Boyees," said Jake, '* yer needn't take on about it. 

 The woods an' plains an' mountains '11 last our time, 

 anyhow ; an' let them as kim arter us take kear o' them- 

 sells. That's this child's opeenion o' the matter, an' I 

 calc'late it's genuine pheelosophy, as I 've hearn some o' 

 them queerities as lives by book-larnin' say." 



Having argued the matter to this pithy conclusion, 

 the hunters allowed the subject to drop. The fire was 

 replenished with several giant logs, which soon became 

 a mass of flame, throwing a hot-house atmosphere round 

 the spot. 



Fatigued by their day's exertions, as well as over- 

 come by the drowsy influence of the warm camp, the 

 hunters threw themselves upon the lairs which they 

 had constructed, and soon their deep and regular breath- 

 ing alone disturbed the midnight quiet. 



