BULLETS AND THEIE BILLETS 



smashed canoe will cause you but little 

 delay on your journey: something will 

 be devised of almost laughable simpli- 

 city to meet the emergency. 



On a certain arduous voyage, where 

 it was necessary to go very light indeed, 

 the only tin pail developed a hole in the 

 bottom of so nicely calculated a size 

 that, at the moment when the water 

 came to the boil, it had all run out. No 

 tea in the woods: condition unendur- 

 able ! Many cures were tried, while 

 the half-breed watched his masters' fu- 

 tilities with something like a twinkle in 

 his solemn eye. When everyone had 

 had a hand at the tinkering, and matters 

 were worse rather than better, he took 

 the vessel, neatly rounded the hole, 

 shaved down a rifle bullet, delicately 

 rivetted it in place, and voila, a teapot 

 that performed its functions quite per- 

 fectly. 



The way in which the wood folk use 

 their eyes excites admiration, mingled 



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