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and, the clanger of Frontenac's anger being re- 

 moved, he completely forgot the lessons of his 

 imprisonment. 



The intendant ordered Migeon, bailiff of Mon- 

 treal, to arrest some of Perrot's coureurs de bois. 

 Perrot at once arrested the bailiff, and sent a 

 sergeant and two soldiers to occupy his house, 

 with "orders to annoy the family as much as pos- 

 sible. One of them, accordingly, walked to and 

 fro all night in the bed-chamber of Migeon's wife. 

 On another occasion, the bailiff invited two friends 

 to supper : Le Moyne d'Iberville and one Bouthier, 

 agent of a commercial house at Eochelle. The 

 conversation turned on the trade carried on by 

 Perrot. It was overheard and reported to him, 

 upon which he suddenly appeared at the window, 

 struck Bouthier over the head with his cane, then 

 drew his sword, and chased him while he fled for 

 his life. The seminary was near at hand, and the 

 fugitive clambered over the wall. Dollier de Casson 

 dressed him in the hat and cassock of a priest, and 

 in this disguise he escaped. 1 Perrot's avidity some- 

 times carried him to singular extremities. " He 

 has been seen," says one of his accusers, " filling 

 barrels of brandy with his own hands, and mixing 

 it with water to sell to the Indians. He bartered 

 with one of them his hat, sword, coat, ribbons, 

 shoes, and stockings, and boasted that he had made 

 thirty pistoles by the bargain, while the Indian 

 walked about town equipped as governor." 2 



1 Conduitedu Sieur Perrot, Gouverneur de Montreal en la Nouvelle France, 

 1681 ; Plainte du Sieur Bouthier, 10 Oct., 1680 ; P roces-verbal des huissiers 

 de Montreal. 



2 Conduite du Sieur Perrot. La Barre, Frontenac's successor, declares 



