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OFF FOR LAC LA BICHE 



IF such signs were trustworthy, I should have been 

 much elated over the auspicious weather that ruled on the 

 day of our departure for La Biche. Truly it was a beauti- 

 ful morning, with the temperature some twenty degrees 



OFF FOR LAC LA BICHE 



below zero, and a glorious sun, which touched the ice-cov- 

 ered bushes and trees with sparkling brilliancy. When 

 we started on our 175-mile drive, all Queen's Hotel, and, 

 I judged, half the town, turned out to bid us godspeed. 



